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...fervor than an intraparty clash between the state's imposing, egg-bald party chairman, Richard Rosenbaum, 45, and the pugnacious chairman of Brooklyn's G.O.P., George Clark, 35. Clark had seized upon the Reagan candidacy to vent his resentment of Rosenbaum's iron chancellorship and Rockefeller's tight paternal grip. The two leaders had fought first in Kansas over whether Clark could have a Reagan telephone on the floor, then over whether Reagan should be formally invited to address the whole delegation. Rosenbaum vetoed both ideas. Complained Reagan Delegate Vito Battista: "This is like the Gestapo...
...maneuvering last week, Reagan's agents probed for some issue they might carry to the convention floor in order to whip up an emotional response that could break Ford's fragile grip on the nomination. Their best chances seemed to rest with...
...until the first great political manager, Mark Hanna, broke the grip of the Democratic opposition. An enlightened industrialist who treated labor as a partner, Hanna directed William McKinley's 1896 presidential campaign against the Democratic populist, William Jennings Bryan ("You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"). By issuing a lot of persuasive campaign broadsides, translated into several languages for immigrants, Hanna convinced laborers as well as businessmen that Bryan's demand for the free coinage of silver would devalue the dollar. Sound money, Hanna sloganeered, would guarantee everyone a "full dinner pail." McKinley's landslide assured Republican...
...foreign investments. Secretary Kissinger sensibly argues that U.S. foreign policy cannot be based on personal moral beliefs. Nonetheless, it does seem possible that regimes such as those of South Korea, Chile and Uruguay, which are heavily dependent on American support, could be nudged into loosening some of their grip by threats from Washington to withhold...
...following year proved the first of Old Tom Morriss' four Open victories. Old Tom was eventually dethroned by his son, fittingly enough known as Young Tom, who held a death grip on the championship belt until his own abrupt passing at the age of 24 on Christmas day, 1925. For golf purists, the 1861 shindig is revered as the first true British Open since amateurs were no longer barred and the contest was unequivocally declared "open to all the world...