Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Political scandal is not new to Illinois,nor is it the exclusive property of one political party. In 1956 a top Republican official, Orville Hodge, was convicted of looting the statetreasury of $1,450,000; last year it was discovered that the late secretary of state, Paul Powell, a Democrat, had stashed away $800,000 in shoeboxes. Less than a year before the 1972 election, another scandal has surfaced that could severely damage the Democratic machine of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley...
...protest began with what might have been a comic re-creation of the Paris housewives' march on Versailles during the early days of the French Revolution in 1789. Last week's demonstration, dubbed "the March of the Empty Pots," was organized by the opposition Christian Democrat and National parties to publicize Chile's food shortages and embarrass Allende on the eve of visiting Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's departure. More than 5,000 Chilean women, dressed in simple cotton prints, minis and sleek pantsuits, headed for downtown Santiago, snarling traffic and filling the spring evening...
Died. Harriet McCormack, 87, wife of former House Speaker John McCormack; of heart disease; in Washington. Summing up his near-legendary relationship with Mrs. McCormack, who gave up a career with the Metropolitan Opera to marry him in 1920, the lanky Boston Democrat once said: "It's all very simple. We're what we were from the first time we met-sweethearts." Avoiding the Washington social whirl, they breakfasted together every morning, never spent a night apart. When she was stricken last year, McCormack refused to leave her side, and occupied an adjoining room at the hospital...
...fond of asserting, he has risen, Nixon-like, from the ashes of defeat before. He lost the first time he ran for mayor of Minneapolis, and he lost the 1960 Democratic nomination to John Kennedy. Among high-level Democratic politicians, Humphrey is the best-liked personality of all the party's candidates, announced or not. He has access to an organization that stretches into almost every state and has been promised support from backers ready to shell out cash for a Humphrey campaign. Eugene Wyman, a former California Democratic chairman, can get Humphrey all the money he needs...
Georgia's Julian Bond has said that Humphrey has more black backing than any leading Democrat except Kennedy. Bond added, however, that most blacks feel Muskie will win the nomination...