Word: democratism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bipartisan Burst. Dave Lawrence began his political schooling early. His teamster father was Democratic chairman of lower Pittsburgh's tough Third Ward. At 14 young Dave landed his first job: office boy to Democratic City Chairman William J. Brennan. Lawrence became Allegheny County chairman at 31, discovered that in Republican Pennsylvania the prestige was hollow. When Hyde Park's Franklin Roosevelt rolled into the White House, Democrat Dave Lawrence rolled into statewide power, dragging with him his own candidate for governor, Businessman George H. Earle...
...boost an old friend. Summoned to Ike's Waldorf-Astoria suite for 15 minutes of pleasantries and pictures was Robert Keaton Christenberry, 58, Republican candidate for mayor of New York in next week's election. Christenberry has had rough going battling the entrenched solidity of Incumbent Democrat Robert F. (for Ferdinand) Wagner Jr., who has served one four-year term, wants a second, has a good chance in Democratic New York City of getting what he wants. Candidate Christenberry grabbed onto the presidential endorsement as if it were a life preserver-and for good reason...
Last week's would-be political Lazarus: South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond, entombed as the Dixiecrat candidate for President in 1948, who seemed willing to rise again. In Rock Hill, S.C., Thurmond cried out for a "real Democrat" (a term he deems almost exclusive to himself) to take over the state's party leadership and be ready to act "independently...
Said one local Congressman admiringly: "I never thought I'd see anybody in Central Mississippi speak up for integration and get a standing ovation." Said a slightly tipsy young Democrat, as he pumped the hand of Roman Catholic Jack Kennedy: "You know what? All these Baptists and Methodists are going to vote for you, my Catholic friend. And I'm proud to say I'm one of them too." Said Mississippi's influential Governor James P. Coleman: "I think he is our best presidential prospect...
...only drawback to Editor Keyser's big joke was that the subjects of his phony stories failed to see it. Democrat Mike Birmingham promptly sued Republican Keyser-a longtime critic of his administration-for $1,000,000 damages. A second suit (for $500,000) was filed by Chairman of the County Property Review Board Christian H. Kahl, whom Keyser had playfully reported to be "hiding out in the sand dunes near Ocean City." County State's Attorney Frank H. Newell has summoned a grand jury to consider criminal proceedings against the editor. Last week, as other victims...