Word: holdout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a Blast. Johnson found the political weather cool in Virginia's Byrd-land (where Senator Byrd is the only eminent Southern Democratic holdout), but it warmed almost immediately when the L.B.J. Special rolled into the Carolinas. At every whistle stop, politicians of every variety, from Senators to sheriffs, from South Carolina's Governor Ernest Rollings to Florida's Representative Bob ("He-Coon") Sikes, clambered happily aboard. There they were warmly and methodically greeted by L.B.J. and Lady Bird, photographed, endorsed, introduced, and ushered off with a blast of The Yellow Rose of Texas...
...member A.F.L.-C.I.O. general board, after a hearty lunch in the presidential room of Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel, officially endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket. Lone holdout: Negro Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph, president of the Sleeping Car Porters, who argued there was little difference between Kennedy and Nixon, suggested that Labor form its own third party...
TURNTABLE WAR revives as Columbia Records began issuing three-minute pop "singles" (in recent years available only on 45 r.p.m.'s) in 33⅓speed. Capitol, ABC Paramount, Argo and London record firms will soon follow because of declining pop-singles sales. Lone holdout in drive to make 33s standard for industry: RCA Victor, which pioneered...
...take a nap?" kidded Lyndon. "I've got that one all sewed up." Kennedy showed impressive muscle in his first big key play with the Pennsylvania delegation (81 votes). For months Governor David Leo Lawrence, one of the nation's strongest Democratic bosses, had been a holdout against Kennedy for fear that a Roman Catholic presidential nominee might hurt the party in militantly Protestant rural regions. Lawrence and his Pennsylvanians invited Kennedy and the opposition to a breakfast at Pasadena's Huntington-Sheraton Hotel. Stu Symington, forceful and yet somehow dim as a waning flashlight...
...that young Joe, a bright, confident boy and a natural leader, would go into politics and in due course become President of the U.S. As a 25-year-old member of the Massachusetts delegation to the Democratic Convention of 1940, Joe Jr. footnoted political history by being the last holdout for James Farley, against Roosevelt's third term...