Word: democratic
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...Governor of Illinois has ever served three terms. Last week two-term Democrat Otto Kerner, 59, announced that he would prefer not to challenge history. Kerner's unexpected decision to quit-and possibly get a federal judgeship-left Illinois Democrats with reminiscences of 1948, when Cook County Political Boss Jake Arvey forged a winning ticket with Adlai Stevenson for Governor and Paul Douglas for the U.S. Senate. Today the political boss is, of course, Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley, and the most likely candidates are State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III and Sargent Shriver, head of the federal...
Referring to a charge by Governor John King that McCarthy was advocating "surrender" and "appeasement," the antiwar Democrat said, "it looks to me as though Governor King is trying to please the President by proving he is more against me than even the President...
Senator Morse created deep resentment among many Democrats by endorsing Republican dove Mark Hatfield for the Senate in 1966 over Democrat Duncan. Morse said he wanted a dove elected regardless of party. Since Hatfield won by less than 2 per cent, a number of Democrats feel Morse deserves no party support in a Democratic primary, and indicate they will work against...
...Morse ran as a Democrat. He was the only man in American history who had successfully run for the Senate as both a Democrat and Republican...
Understandably, editors are considerably less hostile to journalism-school graduates than they used to be. Some still feel, along with Boston Globe Editor Thomas Winship, that graduate study in international politics or economics is more useful than journalism school. But a growing number agree with St. Louis Globe-Democrat Managing Editor George Killenberg. "There are only a few who still hold the old view of journalism schools," he says. "I didn't graduate from one, but I've been impressed with what we've seen recently. These guys can do the job right away...