Word: democratized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor's defeat came from a combination of Tom O'Connor's razzledazzle campaign and Furcolo's own shabby record. Despite his party's longtime pledge against a state sales tax, Furcolo had repeatedly tried to get one passed. He feuded endlessly with the Democratic legislative majority, got into whiffing distance of a scandal involving an appointee to Massachusetts' Metropolitan District Commission. Jack Kennedy had refused to endorse him in Furcolo's unsuccessful 1954 senatorial race against Republican Leverett Saltonstall, and this time studiously avoided endorsing either Democrat in the primary...
Ending a two-year Mississippi hegemony, radiant Nancy Anne Fleming, 18, of minuscule (pop. 2,346) Montague, Mich, found herself Miss America of 1961. While she was sewing up the title with victories in the talent (dressmaking) and bathing-suit (35-22-35) preliminaries at Atlantic City, her Governor, Democrat G. Mennen Williams, was campaigning in New Jersey for Jack Kennedy. Although he missed her crowning, "Soapy" slipped into town in time for the subsequent Coronation Ball and a dance with his comely constituent, who magnanimously labeled it "my second biggest thrill of the night...
...last week by Editor & Publisher showed that the so-called "one party press" is less predictably so than it used to be. Of 801 daily newspapers responding to Editor & Publisher's questions, 433, or 54.1% with combined circulation of 10,680,988, are supporting Republican Richard Nixon. Backing Democrat John Kennedy are 125 dailies, or 15.6% of the total, with circulation of 2,372,160. A similar Editor & Publisher canvass in 1956 showed Republican Dwight Eisenhower supported by 59.46% of the daily newspapers against 17.21% for Democrat Adlai Stevenson...
While the headlines were crowded with the religious issue, Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy was busy nailing down some issues of perhaps more importance to his political future. In his first full week of campaigning, he revealed himself as the farthest-out liberal Democrat around. In a sweeping section of his Labor Day speech in Detroit, for example, he embraced civil rights, collective bargaining, increased minimum wages, a lifting of immigration restrictions, more pay for teachers, and more aid for the aged, farmers and small businessmen. Excerpts from Kennedy's week of speeches...
Into a new career-or at least so he hoped-went pixy Pugilist Archie Moore. In San Diego, Calif., Democrat Moore announced his candidacy for the State Assembly in November's election. Although sometimes chary about defending his light-heavyweight boxing championship, Archie promised if elected he "will be a fighting assemblyman...