Word: cranston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vigorous re-election campaign, let alone represent a key state in Washington, and they want him to retire. Engle's wife, Lucretia, is fighting hard to keep him in the race. The liberal California Democratic Council has already rejected Engle and instead has endorsed State Controller Alan Cranston. Governor Brown, a longtime political colleague of Engle's, announced his support for Cranston...
...influence as a key power in the state has waned since John Kennedy's death, and Unruh wanted his own senatorial candidate to throw into the fight. He did not want Alan Cranston. So he urged California Attorney General Stanley Mosk to enter the primary, but Governor Brown persuaded Mosk that his candidacy would hurt the party. Mosk withdrew. Unruh cast about for another candidate, failed to find a willing man. Until he hit on San Francisco-born Pierre Salinger...
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...York, Senior Editor Cranston Jones, who supervises editorial color projects, and Contributing Editor Charles P. Jackson, whose critical eye watches the technical side, felt that they had had quite a week -having gone from Pollock to Pope, with a bow to Moses along...
...thus been biding their time. They are Representative James Roosevelt, 56, F.D.R.'s oldest son; State Attorney General Stanley Mosk, 51, best known for the memorable description of Birch Society members as "wealthy businessmen, retired military officers and little old ladies in tennis shoes"; and State Controller Alan Cranston, 49, a leader of the liberal California Democratic Council...