Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pennsylvania Democrat in Louisiana, I was not even reassured by the polls. However, on election night I went to sleep content to know that the rest of the country did not want to maintain segregation at the cost of annihilation, and happy to forget the unspoken undertone: "In our hearts we know he's white...
...campaign to win a third consecutive four-year term as Washington's Governor, Democrat Albert ("Rosy") Rosellini took big advertisements in the newspapers showing the President of the U.S. talking on the telephone. "Dan who?" said the caption beneath the picture of Lyndon Johnson...
...election night Charles Holley, Florida's Republican candidate for Gov ernor, sent word to Democrat W. (for Willie) Haydon Burns. "It looks like you've won,": he said. Replied Winner Burns: "That's the first accurate statement he made during this campaign." Taking his place among the South's Governors, Burns, 52, a six-term may or of Jacksonville, will almost certainly prove to be one of the most colorful. A native Kentuckian, he is tall (6 ft. 2 in.), trim, and known as "Slick" because of his penchant for flashy clothes. Running for the nomination...
Murphy's victory last week over short-term Incumbent Democrat Pierre Salinger was a classic study in how to handle the California electorate. Democrats there outnumber Republicans 3 to 2. To rate even the thinnest chance of winning, Murphy not only had to hold onto all factions of the G.O.P., from rabid-right kooks to solid moderates, he also had to pick up some 20% of Democratic and Independent votes...
Fallen Wall. But Bacon's breakthrough happened only by chance?or at least by the kind of chance that only total preparation makes into a real breakthrough. The 1952 election installed a new, reform-minded mayor, Democrat Joseph Clark, and a new city charter, in which the planning commission was given real authority. A few months later came an announcement from the Pennsylvania Railroad that it had at last decided to tear down the inner city's historic eyesore: the old Broad Street station and the mile-long stretch of elevated tracks behind it that had been known...