Word: kanawha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockefeller IV, 28, who earlier this year broke family tradition by becoming a Democrat, already is being touted as a future West Virginia Governor. Young Rockefeller, nephew of New York's Republican Governor Nelson and Arkansas' G.O.P. Gubernatorial Candidate Winthrop, was the biggest vote getter in a Kanawha County field of 60 candidates for 14 statehouse nominations, is virtually assured of election. Shrugged the lanky (6' 6") bachelor: "I shook a lot of hands...
Among other charges of inefficiency and influence, G.O.P. critics pointed out that the Kanawha Hotel in Charleston, W. Va., which the Job Corps converted into a women's center for $187,400, plus $90,000 a year in rent, has chiefly benefited a prominent local Democrat named Angus Peyton, who held a sizable interest in the property. To the girls, the hotel became "Peyton's Place," and before long there were charges that some of them were living down to the name by running a prostitution racket. The charges were never proved and were eventually dropped...
...carried all but seven of West Virginia's 55 counties. Despite the pressure of venerable United Mine Worker John L. Lewis for Humphrey, the miners in the depressed coal fields turned out for Kennedy. Despite the warnings of their militantly Protestant pastors, the hillbillies south of the Kanawha River voted for a Catholic; Kennedy, in fact, brought his campaign to a climax with a statewide Sunday evening television assurance that if any President of the U.S. took "dictation" from anyone, the Pope included, it would be contrary to his oath of office and "he would be subject to impeachment...