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...Some you say, 140,000 "have been Spanish-speaking Democrats," you say, "have been registered in Cali-Demo-ornia through the Viva Kennedy Clubs." As the group that actually did the job which you so generously attribute to them, we feel forever justified in screaming like stuck pigs, squawking like young robbed eagles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 7, 1960 | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

Problems of the political future were still very much on Ike's mind when he landed in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There his host was conservative Demo cratic Senator Harry Byrd, who has stubbornly refused to endorse his party's ticket, and all but urged his supporters to vote for Nixon and Lodge. With Byrd by his side, the President looked in on the drab little home at Mount Sidney where his mother was born, attended the annual luncheon of the Woodrow Wilson Birth place Foundation in nearby Staunton. (Notably absent was President Wilson's widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: On the Firing Line | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

...signed on the dotted line as president of the National Association of Broadcasters was Florida's genial Demo cratic Governor LeRoy Collins whose $22,500-a-year term expires in January. After his effective chairing of the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles earlier this year, Collins hinted that he was open for an ambassadorial or Cabinet post if the Democrats win. Best guess as to why Collins would choose October's birdinhand instead of waiting for the iffy outcome of November's election: $100,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 17, 1960 | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

Well satisfied with his face lifting of New Haven, Conn. (pop. 149,000), fourth-term Mayor Richard C. Lee, energetic slum clearer and chairman of the Demo cratic Advisory Council's subcommittee on urban problems, is eager to advise the nation's metropolises on their slum problems. Speaking to a predominantly Negro Sunday school group, Dick Lee, 44, last week suggested a strategic variation on Southern lunch-counter sit-ins that sent official eyebrows soaring in police headquarters across the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Amazing Mr. Lee | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

...life. To begin with, he was not a Down-Easter at all; he came east from Iowa as a young man, set up practice as a chiropractor in Waterville, later prospered as a fuel-oil dealer, and was elected Waterville's mayor in 1956. Then, as a conservative Demo crat, he skyrocketed out of comparative obscurity in 1958 to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomination away from the candidate of the Democratic liberals, led by Maine's popular Governor Ed Muskie (now U.S. Senator). Clauson was the first to run for Maine's new four-year (instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAINE: Republican for Democrat | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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