Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major league baseball season opened in California last week-and so did Democrat Edmund ("Pat") Brown's campaign for re-election as Governor. At a breakfast rally in San Francisco's Civic Center Auditorium, Brown wound up and let fly with the political season's longest metaphor. Cried he of Republican Opponent Richard Nixon. "You've seen the scouting reports on the opposition. You know you can look for a lot of low, inside curves and some hot ones down the foul line. And it is a matter of record that their star pitcher...
Died. Culbert Levy Olson, 85, ex-Governor of California and the first Democrat to hold the post since 1894, a wealthy Utah-born New Dealer whose first official act after his election in 1938 was to pardon Labor Organizer Tom Mooney from life imprisonment for the bombing of a 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade, and who was beaten in a re-election bid by his own Republican attorney general. Earl Warren; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
Gleason said one reason for widespread corruption in Massachusetts is the "absence of a forceful or coherent policy on both sides--Republican and Democrat." This absence of policy, he continued, makes for a lack of involvement and a tendency to regard the State House as "a huge employment agency rather than a governing body...
...victim of a mysterious "real control apparatus" dedicated to a "no-win" war policy for the U.S. "I was a scapegoat of an unwritten policy of collaboration and collusion with the international Communist conspiracy . . ." Tower of Babel. Such talk puzzled the Senators. Just what, asked Alaska Democrat Bob Bartlett, did Walker mean by "real control apparatus." Replied Walker: "The real control apparatus" can be identified by its effects and what it is doing, it did in Cuba, what it is doing in the Congo, what it did in Korea. All these were done by people. So the apparatus...
...hear them tell it, Nixon was soon slipping badly. Though all over California Nixon was getting good crowds, flocking to shake hands with him and applaud the distinguished native son, the latest California poll seemed to bear out the reporters' suspicions. The new Mervin Field poll shows Democrat Pat Brown for the first time ahead, 45% to 42%, with 13% undecided (in the last count, in February, Nixon...