Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was one vote that Teddy Kennedy presumably lost in his effort to win endorsement by Massachusetts Democrats convening in Springfield last week. But he won enough to force Attorney General Edward McCormack Jr. to concede midway through the first ballot when trailing 691-360. Just a few weeks ago, Eddie figured he was well ahead. Both through his own record as a regular Massachusetts Democrat and as House Speaker John McCormack's nephew, Eddie commanded the loyalties of the state's party pros. But those pros proved loyal only up to the point where they came into...
...charges that he is only a Democrat in Republican clothing. Rocky is downright indignant. He professes what to him is a basic Republican creed-and challenges anyone to dispute its orthodoxy. "In addition to the fact that I was born a Republican," he says, "I believe in the worth and dignity of the individual -the concept of equal rights. I believe in private initiative and private enterprise: this is the growth factor in a democracy...
Help from Democrats. Rockefeller's own future depends on how well he does in the New York election this fall. A big win would propel him strongly into the running in 1964. So far, New York Democrats seem intent on giving him a helping hand. No Democrat has yet emerged who is any real opposition for Rockefeller, and the Democrats have made news mostly by their scramble to avoid facing him in the fall...
...Hill. One deceptively quiet afternoon, the Senate was considering that familiar bale of hay, the foreign aid authorization bill. The speechmakers droned away in a nearly deserted chamber. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield was off in his own office, conferring with a passel of Democratic Senators about the Administration's tax-revision bill. The only firecracker expected to make any noise in connection with the foreign aid bill was Wisconsin's Democrat William Proxmire's amendment to bar aid (but not shipments of surplus food) to Yugoslavia for one year. Even Proxmire's staffers admitted that they...
Peabody has served as a member of the Governor's Executive Council and was an All-American guard during football days at the College. He has promised "a return to decent government in the Commonwealth" and billed himself as "the only Democrat who can beat (Gov. John A.) Volpe in November." It was Peabody's first convention victory in three tries...