Word: democratics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, the Democrats are in penury. The party's campaign fund contains a meager $500,000; debts totaling $9.3 million remain unpaid from the 1968 campaign. There is Democratic money to be had, but there are too many candidates competing in an uncertain situation for any of the high rollers to empty their wallets this early. In his brief, six-week run for the nomination, Fred Harris had been able to raise only $160,000 when he quit because he was bankrupt. Birch Bayh, before he dropped out of contention when his wife became ill, reportedly received...
...make a hard and serious effort." If McCarthy does that, the money is obviously there. HENRY JACKSON. Money has not been one of Scoop Jackson's worries, and it will not be a problem as primary season opens. With Humphrey holding back, Jackson is the most successful Democrat at pulling in big money at fund-raisers; at a $ 1,000-a-couple buffet two weeks ago, he netted close to $200,000. The key figure is Stanley Golub, a Seattle wholesale jeweler who went to law school with...
...make a case that a Democratic victory is possible. Don't you think that anyone who voted for Hubert Humphrey in 1968 will vote for a Democrat next time? And what if we can get 8,000,000 young voters to the polls out of the 25 million who will be eligible? But I don't underestimate the strength of the President's appeal...
...from "The Best Location in the Nation" to "The Mistake on the Lake." Through a strange concatenation of events which made the political prognosticators cringe with shame, law-and-order candidate Ralph Perk became Cleveland's first Republican mayor in 35 years by winning an election dominated by the Democrat who was leaving office...
...years, the Jews of Russia accepted their fate stoically-Novelist Elie Wiesel called them "the Jews of Silence"-but ever since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 they have become increasingly vociferous. So have their supporters abroad. Last week a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee headed by New York Democrat Benjamin S. Rosenthal opened an investigation into the problem by having the State Department present an evaluation. The Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, Richard T. Davies, appeared at the hearing with a 21-page statement. Though carefully balanced, it promptly touched off a chorus of protests that demonstrated how touchy...