Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School Young Democratic Club, headed by Herbert Gleason 2L, has worked with the other Democratic clubs in the main activities, but has also sponsored projects outside of its major obligations. Workers have campaigned in Lexington for the national ticket and for Jimmy O'Dea, a candidate for district attorney and presently Democratic whip of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Other groups from the Law School club, whose membership is over 200, have done canvassing and research for Jackson J. Holtz, Democratic challenger for the seat in the United States House now occupied by Lawrence Curtis...
Edward H. Martin '60 of Weld Hall and Lexington has been elected captain of the cross-country team. Martin has placed first in all three of the freshman meets...
...captain attended Lexington High School, where he was captain of the cross-country, basketball, and track teams. For the past two years he has placed first in the state Class D 440 races...
...prove otherwise; e.g., he has neglected to instruct his 20,000 state employees to 1) contribute the traditional 2% of their salaries to the Democratic campaign fund, 2) help get out the vote. Last week, though he made it a point to greet President Eisenhower on his arrival in Lexington, the jovial Happy pointedly announced that he would have a previous engagement when Adlai Stevenson comes a-calling...
Peeps & Points. Striking northwest from Lexington, John Sherman Cooper, 55, tramped through solid Democratic counties, e.g., Scott, Henry, Carroll and Owen ("I've always gotten more applause than votes in these parts"), shaking hands. Men were interested in his grave, quiet manner, women in his good looks and unfailing courtesy. Often he walked into beauty parlors, peeped under hair dryers, introduced himself to the surprised clients thereunder, explaining: "I need your vote." Popular as he is, Yaleman Cooper is regarded by some of the Kentucky Old Guard as being "too progressive" and distinctly a member of the party...