Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessmen, economists and politicians across the land. Some of those who insisted that the President went much too far sounded even more denunciatory than Kennedy had been against Big Steel. "I just figured that this is the way Hitler took over," said George McDougal, vice president of the Daniel Construction Co. in Greenville, S.C. Said University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman: "It brings home dramatically how much power for a police state resides in Washington." Declared his Chicago colleague, Yale Brozen: "Kennedy's action was the greatest display of dictatorial white-fatherness one could imagine. Who is this...
...Lead. With the campaign in its closing weeks, the man to catch is still Governor Price Daniel, 51, an unimposing figure in a country judge's black suit and a crushed Stetson, who wants to become the first Texan to win four two-year terms in Austin. A former U.S. Senator, Baptist Daniel is a just-plain-folks politician who occasionally startles visitors to his office by dropping to his knees in prayer; he won by more than 1,000,000 votes in 1960 although he had bolted the party in 1952 to back Dwight Eisenhower...
...pursuit of Daniel is one of the most influential politicians in Texas, although he has never before run for major public office: John Connally, 45. Fort Worth lawyer and oil man. who plotted strategy for Lyndon Johnson's campaigns from 1937 right through the 1960 convention. Connally quit as Secretary of the Navy to run for Governor. Backed by 26 Texas dailies and a gusher of contributions, Conservative Connally is staging the most intensive campaign of any of the candidates: in two months he has traveled more than 22,000 miles, made 43 major speeches, appeared on two statewide...
...remaining four candidates are galloping off in all directions. State Attorney General Will Wilson. 49, charged that Connally was Johnson's stooge and (without proving it) that Daniel has made a mint out of questionable real estate deals while Governor. Houston Lawyer Donald Yarborough, 36. claims the support of labor. Former Highway Commissioner Marshall Formby, 50, is a conservative, PRESIDENT-GENERAL DUNCAN Young, but not quite new. but he seems to be a blazing liberal compared to the sixth man in the race: former Army Major General Edwin A. Walker, 52, who vows that he will turn Texas into...
...huing and crying, neither the candidates nor the campaign seem to have caught fire. Says a Texan in Amarillo: "The whole thing doesn't seem to amount to much this year. I'm not really terribly interested." In Sweetwater. only 25 persons attended a rally for Governor Daniel, although the affair had been ballyhooed for weeks. Connally did get 10,000 to show up at a mammoth barbecue he threw in Floresville, the home of his parents, but more often he found himself talking to empty seats. The politicians blame the obvious voter apathy on the overexposure...