Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...genial, 53-year-old governor of Kansas, and his wife Virginia had just finished a rousing round of duplicate bridge and a lively tournament post-mortem of the play over coffee and ice cream in the Hotel Kansan snackshop, the Purple Cow. It was past midnight in Topeka as Democrat Docking paid the bill, escorted Virginia to his state-owned Cadillac outside, helped her into the car, slid into the driver's seat and purred off into the night...
Though his tax program sounds like orthodox Fair Dealing, George Docking has made a political career out of being an offbeat Democrat in Republican Kansas (he regards himself as "a kind of cynic," likes to read Voltaire, Swift, Defoe). The son of a prosperous Kansas banker, Docking sold bonds for a few years after his graduation (A.B., economics) from the University of Kansas in 1925. Eventually he went into the family banking business, took over in 1942 as president of the First National Bank of Lawrence. He played his first political hand in 1952, as money-raiser for Adlai Stevenson...
...votes. On his second try, he campaigned in every county of the state, won by 115,000 votes. His victory followed a crunching split in the long-powerful Kansas G.O.P., where highhanded Republican Governor Fred Hall had thoroughly alienated his own party. Even so, the Republicans felt that a Democrat in the statehouse represented some political quirk of fate and would prove to be a brief nightmare. But once in office, Docking settled down to a program so different from Hall's that it pleased even some Republicans...
Factions & Finesses. Such has been the success of Democrat Docking that in county after county across the state, once hopelessly labeled by blighted Democrats as the Land of Landon, the Democratic Party is showing gaining strength, building a fresh, new organization, putting up candidates for county and municipal offices where Democrats have never had a chance. The Democrats already have one of Kansas' six congressional seats, have high hopes of gaining one or two more this November. The Republican factions are still too busy snapping at each other to find a good candidate to throw against Docking...
...Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner and Connecticut's Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff took up the campaign in hopes of winning the votes of commuters, mostly presumed to be Republican. Furthermore, both states are pressed for cash and would like to get some of the money going to New York. The governors descended on New York's Governor Averell Harriman, another Democrat. But Harriman was cool to their heat: New York is already worried about a $20 million drop in all revenue. There may be discrimination, he agreed, but tax laws cannot be written to take into...