Word: labelers
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McLevy (pronounced McLeevy) was a peculiar institution in U.S. politics. A handsome although notably untidy man, he was a Socialist by label, but he had the political instincts of a Democratic ward boss and the economic views of a conservative Republican. The son of a Scottish roofer, he quit school after the eighth grade, followed his father's trade and became a Socialist after reading Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. He ran for mayor nine times before he finally made the grade in 1933. Bridgeport, a drab industrial city on Long Island Sound, was then nearly bankrupt. McLevy...
Heeding the counsel of both Pat Brown and Dick Nixon. California defeated 3 to 2 a scheme that would have allowed grand juries and a flock of state and federal boards and officials to pin the label "Communist" on any organization. In effect, the proposal would have turned grand juries into judges as well as accusers. The leader of the fight for the amendment, which the Los Angeles Times called "intolerable to free men," was whiskery Actor Walter (The Real McCoys) Brennan. who rounded up nearly a million signatures to get the plan on the ballot...
...might as well slap a grocery-store trading stamp on my Christmas greeting-card envelope as disgrace it with that utterly tasteless, uninspired label offered...
...Wrong." Romney tore through Michigan on his people-to-people campaign, propelled like a man with a divine mission. He drove 37,000 miles, flew 13,000 more, knocked on 2,000 doors, shook more than 100,000 hands at factories, shopping centers and meetings. He tried not to label himself a Republican. None of his campaign literature identified his party. When pressed, he said: "I'm a citizen who is a Republican, not a Republican who is incidentally a citizen...
...Brooke, the Republican candidate. The sum and substance of the charge is that while Brooke was with the NAACP he opposed anti-subversive legislation. This was ten years ago. The legislation involved was of doubtful constitutionality at best, as it turned over to the Attorney General awesome power to label "subversives" and prosecute them without much regard for due process...