Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jersey Democrat, Cornelius Gallagher was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy, perjury and evasion of more than $100,000 in income taxes. The seven-term, House member from Bayonne, whom LIFE has accused (Aug. 9, 1968) of Mafia connections, denied any wrongdoing and contended that the indictment was the work of "our secret police society," in retaliation for his support of legislation to curb Government intrusion into people's privacy...
...There was, in fact, a whole series of mistakes made by political pros, journalists, Muskie strategists and Muskie himself. In the first place, he probably should never have been rated so far ahead. That status was based largely on the fact that national surveys showed him to be the Democrat with the best chance to defeat Nixon-but those polls do not translate into strength in state primaries (see box, page...
...Long. Though sometimes reduced to trading advertising space for food, Carter managed to survive Long's attempt to legislate the paper out of business. A year after Long's assassination, Carter started a new paper in Greenville, then bought out his only rival to form the Delta Democrat-Times. Carter's editorial attacks on racial injustice earned him many admirers around the nation and many foes closer to home. In 1946 he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing...
...that some people call rugged individualism. It is a trait bestowed by birthright ("You're not a Montanan until you've weathered 40 winters," the saying goes) and steeped in frontier nostalgia. Montanans are closet cowboys in haunting pursuit of the roundup, even while struggling with realities. Democrats vote Republican, Republicans vote Democrat. The naive are suspicious, the shrewd trusting. Together they brew 100-proof populism and partake of it as effortlessly as they drink their bourbon...
...million low-and average-wage earners, but increase it for about 8,000,000 others. The higher earners would not only pay at a stepped-up rate but also would be taxed on all income, rather than on only the first $9,000 as at present. (Last week Louisiana Democrat Russell Long predicted that his Senate Finance Committee will soon increase the taxable base from $9,000 to $12,000 and raise Social Security benefits by at least...