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...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...
...from Hollywood ... The Melvin Dummar Story! Melvin Dummar? Isn't he that Utah gas station owner who says he gave Howard Hughes a ride one day, and then turned up as a beneficiary in one of the late industrialist's alleged wills? The same. Producer Art Linson has signed up Oscar-Winning Scriptwriter Bo Goldman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and says he hopes to start filming Dummar's life story later this year. "They're already three weeks behind schedule," grumbles Melvin, who had volunteered to play himself on the screen. Instead...
...stepfather and clubbed to death her two-year-old half sister in the family's rundown frame house. The two teen-agers quickly went from killing to killing, all without motive. The victims: a 70-year-old bachelor farmer, a teen-age couple, a well-to-do industrialist, his wife and his maid, and a traveling salesman. The epidemic of shootings turned Lincoln into a horrified city under siege. People were afraid to go to work or even take out the garbage. Some townsmen were armed and deputized to patrol the streets. Eventually authorities nabbed the two desperadoes...
...many of his followers are young Jews. Moon's wealth and his political connections and apparatus are also under increasing scrutiny. He never seems to lack funds with which to fly or bus squads of converts wherever he needs them. Strongly antiCommunist, Moon orates frequently about politics. An industrialist back home in South Korea, he is staunch in his support of President Park Chung Hee, and during...
...first time signed up a host of non-political "personality" candidates. The Christian Democrats nominated Nuclear Physicist Luigi Broglio, respected Banker Gaetano Stammati and Auto Executive Umberto Agnelli. Agnelli, 41, is the younger brother and second in command to Fiat's Gianni Agnelli, Italy's leading industrialist. (Gianni had considered running as a centrist Republican Party candidate but bowed out instead after Umberto filed...