Word: dilworth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon and his manager, Leonard Hall, moved fast and ruthlessly to isolate Stassen. Under this shadow, Stassen in 1958 sought the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination in his adopted state of Pennsylvania, but was put down by a hostile machine. In 1959 he ran for mayor of Philadelphia, and lost to Dilworth in a definitively Democratic city. If we judge Stassen by the men he has fought, his defeats appear in a different light. His opponents were Taft in '52, Nixon in '56, Dulles in '57. Moreover, he denounced McCarthy well before the Senate voted to censure their colleague...
Problems in Philly. In Philadelphia, Democrats were fearful that Mayor James Tate, a party plodder who inherited the office last year when Crusading Liberal Richardson Dilworth resigned to run unsuccessfully for Governor, would be in trouble with whites for his acquiescence to demands from a notably militant grouping of Negro organizations. As it turned out, Tate won-but by the thinnest edge the Democrats had sweated in twelve years of power...
...barely managed to split even with Republican James T. McDermott, a political unknown. In heavily Italian South Philadelphia, scene of some of the city's worst racial clashes over Negro integration thrusts in housing and jobs, Democrat Tate lost two of the three wards that voted hugely for Dilworth in 1959 and John Kennedy...
Eliot: Robert H. Dilworth, Michael L. Donnelly, Philip S. Dow, Martin T. Katsman, Richard J. Rothstein, Jerome E. Singer, Edward R. Sun, Norman E. Thurston...
...were by Dave Brandling-Bennett, who won the 50-yard freestyle in 23.5, and Phillip Graham, who took the 200-yard butterfly in 2:26.1. A team of Rusty Taylor, Porky Pitts, Graham, and Dave Abramson won the medley relay while the freestyle relay victors were Ed Seaton, Bob Dilworth, Eric Bregman, and Arvid Groswald...