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...indulged in self-pity. He fought the Depression and won, gaining strength and stature from the challenge. Mondale, as a Midwest preacher's child in those years of drought and deprivation, was scarred by the suffering. Then he heard the glorious promises of Government from his mentor, Senator Hubert Humphrey, and he never looked back...
...remember the '64 convention," said Frances Humphrey Howard, who worked with Eleanor Roosevelt during the war. "Women were told to scamper. My own brother Hubert was the nominee, and I was told to get lost. Today a great partnership is occurring." Jane McMichael, legislative director for the American Federation of Government Employees, was the staff director of the National Women's Political Caucus during the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. "Remember our so-called headquarters hotel? The cockroaches were big enough to steal the typewriters. I remember crying when Shirley Chisholm was nominated for President...
...HUBERT HUMPHREY: A BIOGRAPHY by Carl Solberg
...protégé of the late Senator Hubert Humphrey, Lord, 64, was appointed to the federal bench in 1966. He has been a hero to environmentalists since the mid-'70s, when he presided over a case involving charges that the Reserve Mining Co. had been polluting Lake Superior. Lord was eventually removed from that case after a higher court accused him of "gross bias" against the company. In another case that had ecologists cheering, the judge refused to permit a trapping season for Minnesota's Eastern timber wolf; the decision caused considerable upset among farmers, who maintained...
...them. Says Dick Strauss, a Richmond Ford dealer who is nearly sold out of the $14,500 Crown Victoria, the successor to the Ford LTD: "Preferences haven't changed. The standard-size car is still the most desired, although not everyone can afford it." Tampa Dodge Dealer Hubert Brooks is also squeezed. Says he: "I can't keep...