Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many Democrats recoiled. "The political arm twisting has been the worst I've ever seen," said Utica's Richard H. Balch, onetime Democratic state chairman. Noting that Bobby's allies were running in three other states-Pierre Salinger in California, Teddy Kennedy in Massachusetts, and Joseph Tydings, who was a U.S. Attorney under Kennedy, in Maryland-with a total of 64 electoral votes among them on top of New York's 43, one Democrat cried: "It will be a United States of Kennedy." In a meeting with Mayor Wagner, a group of reformers protested: "Bobby Kennedy is a ruthless, unprincipled...
Still, Bobby stands high with other ethnic groups: the Germans (675,000 strong in New York), the Irish (492,000) and the Poles (685,000). He has paid particular attention to the state's 2,000,000 Negroes and Puerto Ricans, traditionally Democratic and overwhelmingly anti-Goldwater. At the urging of Kennedy headquarters, New York City Democrats mailed out nearly 4,000,000 pieces of mail, made thousands of phone calls to encourage new voters to register. The result: a city registration record of 3,636,634. For a Democrat, who normally needs a cushion...
...after Hoover had stubbornly rejected urgent demands that he close all of the nation's banks. Only four years before, Hoover had been elected as the 31st President of the U.S., with 58.1% of the popular vote (still the third highest in history), over Democrat Al Smith. When he took office, he had well earned his position as the most respected man in America. Now, after having been overwhelmed for reelection, he was perhaps the most reviled; the phrase "Hoover's Depression" was current, and the nation's landscape was defaced by those tarpaper-shack communities known...
...longer gives interviews to magazines that are doing spreads on children of famous parents. She is her own girl. "Her father is a Republican," says Gig Young, reminiscing fondly, "and she is probably a Democrat." She may soon be worth a fortune on her own too. As a part owner of Bewitched, she gets 20% of the show's profits, which will amount to about $2,000,000 if the program lasts for three seasons, which it probably will...
Died. James P. Mitchell, 63, Eisenhower's Secretary of Labor, who won union applause by opposing right-to-work laws and boosting the minimum wage to $1 an hour, but had less success with the voters in New Jersey, losing the 1961 race for Governor to Democrat Richard Hughes; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...