Word: dan
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Between delegations on Monday, Nixon managed to find time for a luncheon trip to Fisherman's Wharf with newsmen and Dan Gainey, Minnesota jewelry manufacturer who backed Harold Stassen in 1948 and 1952 but has grown increasingly cool toward Childe Harold. No sooner had Nixon left his car for the block-long walk to the Exposition Grotto than a crowd began to gather. Nixon showed all the pump-handle efficiency of an Estes Kefauver in shaking hands with cab drivers, tourists, shopkeepers, cops, and everyone else he could reach...
Thus last week in Colorado these words, spoken by ex-Governor Dan Thornton, wealthy rancher and onetime farmboy, shoved Colorado's senatorial race right off its mile-high mountaintop and down into the barnyard. As sole Republican candidate for the vacated Senate seat of ailing Eugene D. Millikin, who is retiring, the popular Thornton will have to go to the polls against one of two Democratic primary candidates: former Congressman John Carroll or Harry Truman's Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan. Thornton had decided by last week that Brannan was the man to beat...
...have news for my cotton-pickin' opponent," replied Charlie Brannan. "There is no cotton grown in Colorado." Furthermore, said the author of the Brannan Plan, "Republicans should have nominated Man Mountain Dean instead of Dan Thornton if they think Colorado voters are more interested in physical prowess than intellect. I have milked more cows than Thornton has ever seen. I have shocked more hay. I gladly accept the opportunity to debate...
...public officials bar reporters from public hearings and records, editors and publishers are quick to defend freedom of the press. Last week, in New Mexico, it looked as if all publishers do not practice what they preach. For writing a story that offended members of the parole board, Reporter Dan Byrne of Sante Fe's daily New Mexican was ordered excluded from future board meetings. The decision was handed down by Acting Board Chairman Lincoln O'Brien, owner of four New Mexico dailies (but not the New Mexican) and president of the state press association...
Leaving nothing to chance, Republican National Committee Chairman Len Hall this week will open a farm-belt campaign office in Chicago. Under Colorado's former Governor Dan Thornton, the office will send squads of campaigners into the Midwestern states to beat the drums for the G.O.P. If they get a chance to use their umbrellas, so much the better...