Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political patronage system. To build up the power of incumbent Democratic administrations, Kentucky's 23,000 state employees for years were required to "contribute" 2% of their salaries to campaign war chests. Under loudmouthed Governor (1935-39 and 1955-59) Albert ("Happy") Chandler, eight $7,200-a-year highway commissioners traveled Kentucky's highways and byways dispensing jobs and rounding up votes; so many weed cutters were hired by the highway department around election time that Kentuckians ruefully calculated the number at two cutters for each weed...
...Wyatt, onetime (1941-45) mayor of Louisville and U.S. housing expediter in 1946 under Truman. But from the beginning, Combs worked smoothly with Wyatt, and he quickly let Clements know who was boss. At his first cabinet meeting, Combs listened politely while tough Earle Clements, who had been appointed highway commissioner, outlined a pet proposal. Combs replied quietly but firmly: "Nope, that ain't the way we're going to do it." And a point was established...
Renewed hard fighting seemed to be the next step. The French have stopped issuing accurate regular reports of military activity, but rebel bombs have been exploding in Algerian towns. On the main highway out of Algiers, four Frenchmen were kidnaped last week, and four more were mowed down in an ambush in the center of Affreville, just 44 miles from the capital. Reshuffling the top command, the F.L.N. installed a tough, 28-year-old guerrilla with the nom de guerre of Houari Boumedienne as rebel army chief of staff...
...redheaded, young (then 32) J. Howard Edmondson won the 1958 gubernatorial runoff primary, brashly upset the Dry-favored candidate slated by the old guard Democratic machine. Elected Governor, he got prohibition repealed by referendum, went on to push for such general reform measures as legislative reapportionment, a patronage-free highway committee, a merit system for state employees. Still popular with the voters, he might have won most of his proposals had he not continued to snub the old political hands and to make a big to-do about his cabinet full of novices in their 30s. Old politicos also resented...
...minutes before 8 o'clock next morning, Raymond walked 20 feet from his red-shingled bungalow to the narrow country road, hailed a passing state highway department truck and asked the driver and helper to spread cinders on his driveway. After they agreed, Sharpshooter Raymond re-entered the house and opened fire. First he picked off the driver (his helper scampered for the woods, unhurt), then two women who were driving by, killed the mother and blasted the father and two children of a family driving down the road, wounded two other passers-by before state police arrived...