Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cameron a place as Secretary of War in return for the Republican convention backing of Cameron's key Pennsylvania delegation. In 1951, President Harry Truman appointed Minnesota Republican Luther Youngdahl to a federal district judgeship (a position he still holds) to remove Youngdahl from an impending contest with Democrat Hubert Humphrey for the U.S. Senate...
...Classic Detachment. The moving force behind the meetings was Alan Boyd, 39, a lanky, earnest ex-Air Force troop carrier combat pilot, who was a Florida state utilities and railroad commissioner before President Eisenhower appointed him to CAB in 1959. "I don't want to play God," says Democrat Boyd, "but CAB cannot maintain a position of classic detachment. I do not want my administration to be remembered as the one that let the airlines slide into as much trouble as the railroads are in." Boyd told the airline executives flatly: "We have all got to start doing...
...gets past the primary, Nixon must next face Democrat Brown, an inept Governor but a tireless campaigner, whose state party outnumbers the Republicans in registration by more than 1,000,000. Not until private polls told him that he could trounce Brown did Nixon actually decide to run for Governor. But Brown would go down hard. As soon as he heard of Republican Knight's charges against Republican Nixon, Governor Brown picked up the cry: "If Knight's charges are true, it's the most shocking political scandal in the history of the state. If Richard Nixon...
...time the White House does. Result: profits ($7.2 million last year) are way off the chemical industry's pace. To remedy this, Aniline's new, Kennedy-appointed board last week chose as chairman and chief executive officer U.S. Industries Chairman John I Snyder Jr., 52. A strong Democrat and an executive of proven skill, Snyder built the highly diversified U.S. Industries out of Pittsburgh's old Pressed Steel Car Co. Says he: "I don't think Kodak has known that Ansco was around-but it will...
Died. Monrad Charles ("Mon") Wallgren, 70, soft-spoken New Deal Democrat from Washington State, a onetime jeweler and U.S. amateur billiards champion who rose successively to Congressman (1932-1940), Senator (1940-44) and Governor (1944-48), went into political eclipse after he lost the 1948 gubernatorial race, was rejected by the Senate when Harry Truman nominated him to the National Security Resources Board in 1949 but finally won confirmation as a member of the Federal Power Commission; as a consequence of injuries suffered in an auto accident in July; in Olympia, Wash...