Word: farenthold
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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Prankish. The delegates maintained an appealing independence, even from their nominee. They insisted on nominating eight candidates for Vice President, including not only Eagleton but also Alaska's Senator Mike Gravel, former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody and Texas State Representative Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold. By the time the roll call finally began, the delegates were in a prankish mood, casting ballots for TV's Archie Bunker, Martha Mitchell and CBS-TV's Roger Mudd. It was, said Mankiewicz, "like the last day of school." Because the clerk misheard a name, one vote was even recorded temporarily for Mao Tse-tung. Finally...
That paved the way for Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, 46, a feisty Corpus Christi lawyer and state legislator, to make her bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Entering the race just three months before the primary, she finished a surprising second and will face Rancher-Banker Dolph Briscoe, 48, in a June 3 runoff. Unlike Briscoe, a conservative Democrat who has not been politically active since an unsuccessful try for Governor in 1968, Sissy has been on the ramparts. During her two terms in the legislature, she was known as "the den mother of the Dirty Thirty," a coalition of reform...