Word: hubert
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Politically as well as culturally, Minneapolis is one of the Midwest's more progressive cities. Its civic-minded businessmen like their suits conservative and their politics enlightened. Since the 1940s, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor coalition has produced a series of dynamic liberal mayors, including Hubert Humphrey and the incumbent, Arthur Naftalin. Thus Minneapolis seemed unlikely to succumb to the mayoral campaign of a political novice whose principal pledge was "to take the handcuffs off the police." Yet that is just what happened last week...
Nine thousand Bostonians went to Boston Gardens for the "eleven Votes for Peace" rally, which many Harvard students had helped plan. Onetime Presidential contender Eugene McCarthy told the crowd to work for "dove" Senatorial candidates, but McCarthy surprised some party officials by failing to say anything about Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign...
October 30: In a straw poll conducted by the CRIMSON, Hubert Humphrey took more than 66 per cent of student votes for President. More students--9.5 per cent--said they would not vote for Nixon--9.3 per cent. Eldridge Cleaver got 5 per cent of the votes, and a smattering of other candidates--including George Wallace, Eugene McCarthy, and Socialist Fred Halstead -- together collected nearly 10 per cent...
...Hubert Humphrey, in the last month of his Presidential campaign, came to Boston and attracted a crowd of about 400 students, including 50 from Harvard...
October 18: Richard Nixon visited Boston and faced student crowds more hostile than those who had greeted Hubert Humphrey. While Nixon told campaign workers inside the Somerset Hotel that he was "The One for Massachusetts," student picketers from Harvard and B.U. marched outside to protest Nixon's opposition to the California grape boycott...