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...must attract other defectors, because Philadelphia Democrats enjoy a registration edge over Republicans of 560,000 to 370,000. With the help of an endorsement from the Americans for Democratic Action, he depicts himself as the true legatee of the progressive Democratic administrations of Joseph Clark and Richardson Dilworth. Specter's problem here is that Tate does not present a convenient conservative contrast...
Ironclad. His own Pennsylvania machine began to wheeze. Lawrence's hand-picked gubernatorial candidate, Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, was handily beaten by Republican William Scranton in 1962; his choice for the party's 1964 Senate nomination, Judge Michael Musmanno, was defeated in a primary by Genevieve Blatt, who in turn lost to Republican Hugh Scott. And this year, after another savage primary battle, Lawrence's organization candidate lost the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Millionaire Milton Shapp. One of the last of the ironclads, Lawrence buried his bad feelings and campaigned vigorously for Shapp...
Richardson Dilworth, onetime liberal Democratic mayor of Philadelphia and now president of the city's Board of Education, warned that if present trends continue, public schools in the big cities will be almost entirely made up of non-white students within 20 years. He offered Philadelphia as a good example: "Fifty-seven per cent of the public school pupils are nonwhite" in a city that is 70% white, and there are more white kids in "parochial and private schools than there are in our city's entire public school system." . Concluded Dilworth: "I cannot think of a greater...
...treadmill with a bid to wrest his party's nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania from Lieu tenant Governor Raymond Shafer, organization candidate and the choice of Governor William Scranton. Stassen, presidential aspirant in 1948, 1952 and 1964, lost the gubernatorial nomination in 1958, was trounced by Democrat Richardson Dilworth when he ran for mayor of Philadelphia in 1959. He plans to base his campaign on opposition to the war in Viet Nam, vows to make the G.O.P. the "peace party...
...manager and liaison man with the White House and Cabinet under the Eisen hower Administration. He was elected to Congress from Pennsylvania's 10th District in 1960-a year in which John F. Kennedy carried the state. In 1962 he was elected Governor over former Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth by nearly half a million votes. As Governor, he has reformed the state's corruption-filled patronage system, beaten big labor's bosses in a legislative fight over unemployment-compensation reforms, attracted new industry...