Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's early-bird election, "is mainly on the wane." But not even Democrats, as the results rolled in, were prepared for the size of their gain. Not only did Frederick G. Payne lose, as expected, to lanky (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) bow-tied Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 44, the golden boy of Maine politics; Muskie, as the state's first popularly elected Democratic Senator, got double the plurality that he expected. And a train of Maine Democrats followed Muskie into power. Items: EUR| Second District Democrat Frank...
...soothed him: "Don't worry, Pat. Everybody's here." Brown looked carefully around just to make sure. "Well," he explained, "I want to get out there while people are still going to work." He spun, led the way out the door, clambered into a Plymouth station wagon. Edmund Gerald Brown, 53, Democratic candidate for Governor of California, odds-on favorite in what may be the most important contest of Election Year 1958, was on his way to a 6:15 a.m. appointment with destiny. He did not intend to be late...
...Miserable." Edmund Gerald Brown was born April 21, 1905 in San Francisco's "Western Addition," then a middle-class section of narrow homes with stained-glass windows and Victorian gingerbread, now part of the city's expanding Negro community. Pat's father, Edmund Joseph Brown, was a trim, likable man, given to fancy gold watch chains, aromatic cigars and second-best poker hands...
...Young Edmund, eldest of four children, picked up pocket money carrying the San Francisco Call and Chronicle, was a better-than-average student, starred in extracurricular activities. "I have always wanted to be a leader," he recalls. He won first prize in a grade school oratorical contest, ended his speech with the deathless words: "Give me liberty or give me death!" That promptly got him dubbed Patrick Henry Brown-and he has been Pat Brown ever since. But leadership had its problems for cautious Pat Brown. He was easily the best-liked kid at San Francisco's Lowell High...
Sacked City. Outside Parliament the demonstrators were joined by "ruffians and street boys, pickpockets and prostitutes." As the carriages carrying peers and M.P.s began to arrive, this mixed mob went berserk. The great Edmund Burke received no worse than shrieks of "obscene invective," but the Duke of Northumberland was beaten up, the Lord Chief Justice stripped of his wig. The Bishops of Lincoln and Lichfield were "plastered with mud and excrement"; the Archbishop of York was shoved about until he agreed to cry out "No Popery...