Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MAINE GOVERNOR 69% of the vote Curtis (D) 84,679 Reed (R) 68,000 U.S. SENATOR 71% of the vote Smith (R)* 90,000 Violette (D) 69,000 U.S. House (2): +1 Democrat...
...take second spot on the City ticket last year if he would be given the nomination for governor this time out. This "deal" was the apparent raison d'etre for the Roosevelt candidacy. His advance man cries "Give the people a choice. We're appealing to the independent Democrat, the Wagner Democrat (former Mayor Robert F. Wagner supports O'Connor), the voter who doesn't listen to the bosses...
...jocular" newspaper columns, in which he had "vouchsafed a paradigmatic platform, theoretically useful in any large-size American city." From there, it was no more than a few thousand syllables into the 1965 New York mayoralty campaign as the Conservative Party contestant against Republican-Liberal John V. Lindsay and Democrat Abraham Beame...
...there is a potential threat to Stevenson's election. It springs from the popular dissatisfaction, which faces every Democrat now running for office in Illinois. Resentment over the war and inflation account for part of this feeling but most of it stems from the Civil Rights Movement. Last summer the traditionally Democratic working-people of Chicago swore not to forget how, as they saw it, The Rev. Martin Luther King and the Chicago Freedom Movement, under the protection of Mayor Daley's police force, ran roughshod over their front lawns. Mayor Daley did everything within his power to prevent...
...fight is still brewing over the Cambridge School Committee's refusal to permit a Young Democrat-sponsored speech by Stokely Carmichael at Rindge Technical High School. The controversy has prompted the Committee to discuss a formal policy for future Harvard speakers at the school. The new policy calls on Harvard to make some important concessions on its responsibility in the presentation of speakers. In exchange, the School Committee offers nothing...