Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democrat Abraham D. Beame decisively won the four-way New York mayorality race last night with over 50 per cent of the votes. A light turnout at the polls was the anti-climax to a hard-fought campaign that began last January with a field of ten candidates...
Cotner was placed on the ballot two weeks ago when Democrat Carney pulled out of the race because of what he called "personal problems." The Carney family, an important political entity, has been a long-time enemy of the Perks...
...Democrat Brendan T. Byrne lived up to pre-election predictions and over-whelmingly defeated conservative Republican Congressman Charles W. Sandman in New Jersey's gubernatorial election...
Rodino, the man on whom both the Ford and impeachment hearings most directly fall, is 64, a silver-haired liberal Democrat and 25-year House veteran who represents a Newark-area district with a majority of black voters. A lawyer who writes poetry and loves opera, he nevertheless is popular in a tough-talking city where politics is rough. He voted against such technological projects as the ABM and the SST. He succeeded New York's Emanuel Cellar as judiciary chairman last January after Celler was defeated for reelection...
...White, a Democrat, got the idea of looking for new succession mechanisms by recalling that the Massachusetts Senate seat of John Kennedy was filled by an appointee after Kennedy's election to President in 1960 for only two of the term's remaining four years. In 1962 voters chose the President's younger brother Edward to serve the last two years in a special senatorial election. The Boston mayor asked Huntington, his next-door neighbor, whether a similar plan might be possible on a presidential level, and after an hour's search through his books...