Word: democratics
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Republicans, who must make a gain of seven to control the Senate, are concentrating on Democratic-held seats in Tennessee, Florida, New Jersey, Indiana, Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, North Dakota and New Mexico. In Maryland, where Democrat Joseph D. Tydings once seemed invulnerable, the Republicans also have a chance with J. Glenn Beall Jr. Tydings was renominated last week, but made a poor showing against George Mahoney, a nine-time loser...
...words of one of its leading members, Missouri Democrat Richard Boiling, the House of Representatives is "ineffective . . . negative ... Its procedures, time-consuming and unwieldy, mask anonymous centers of irresponsible power. Its legislation is often a travesty of what the national welfare requires." Last week, facing an opportunity to alter that image, the House left it largely intact...
OUTLINING his personal reasons for concern, Maass is a good example of the kind of professors who attended those first conservative meetings. He is both a Democrat and in national politics a liberal, he proudly points out, a former New Dealer whose office contains only two mementoes on the wall-a picture of John F. Kennedy at his inauguration and the notorious Chicago Tribune front page which heralded "Dewey Defeats Truman" in Novem...
...defending Republican Senator Ralph Smith of Illinois against the challenge of Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, Agnew paid a rare Republican tribute to a Democratic machine politician. He noted that Stevenson had called the Chicago police "storm troopers in blue" for their part in the 1968 Democratic Convention riots. "The grave injustice done by that convention was not done to the demonstrators in the streets," Agnew said. "It was done to the good name of the great city of Chicago and its mayor, Richard J. Daley...
...victory by a 2-to-l margin, his statewide exposure during the primary, and his campaign experience and organization will make Cramer a formidable candidate in November. He will face either former Governor Farris Bryant, 56, a conservative Democrat, or State Senator Lawton Chiles, 40, a bright young moderate who forced Bryant into a Sept. 29 runoff...