Word: funding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year, despite the Johnson landslide, a massive fund raising campaign, and a 700,000 bulge in registration, the Democrats somehow contrived to lose the state's three most important constitutional offices. Next year they will probably do even worse...
Tragically, this leadership has not been forth-coming. It is estimated that Kennedy controls over 800 votes at the Democratic preprimary convention; if he were to use these votes and his well-known fund-raising ability wisely, he could, like Governor Dever before him, insure that the Democratic party goes into every election united behind its strongest possible ticket. And yet, whether from fear that his image will be damaged or that some of his supporters will leave him, he has refused to mix in state politics. His party has suffered as a result...
...causes of his party's problem much better than he lets on. But the nature of his position does not allow him to speak out. As chairman of the State Committee, he must be prepared to work closely with whatever candidates emerge from the primaries; and as chief party fund-raiser, he can show partiality towards none. Above all, he cannot afford to offend Senator Kennedy, who proved conclusively in his 1962 battle with McCormack that he has the power to make or break almost any state Democrat at will...
Rossides called for the creation of a special force of 60,000-70,000 men, which would be financed by a "Peace Force Fund." Each unit of the force, he maintained, should be of international composition...
...Dental School submitted its application for aid March I under the Health Professions Educational Act of 1963. A fund drive to raise the remaining $4 million has already been started...