Word: devito
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Betty J. DeVito, a mother of seven from Mercer, Pa., was an ebullient woman who explained she was drawn to politics the day she heard Harry Truman speak from the caboose of a campaign train when she was 13. In New York, she got up every morning at 6:30 and was busy being a Carter delegate far into the night, even though her feet were swollen, and she figured it would cost her $700 to attend the convention, and she had to take a week off from her job without...
...DeVito is an accountant for the state of Pennsylvania, a government employee. All over the convention floor, the situation was the same: an inordinate number of the delegates seemed to be a part of, or somehow plugged into, the government at some level. The most dramatic evidence of this imbalance was the fact that the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers claimed 372 convention delegates between them (virtually all were from public schools). They made up over 10% of the total, though public schoolteachers constitute less than 2% of the population...