Word: lindenbusch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats. To achieve this aim in St. Louis, the Republicans needed a strong candidate if they expected to beat two-term Democratic Mayor Raymond R. Tucker. But if the G.O.P. had the right idea, it picked the wrong man: last week Tucker swamped Republican Auto Dealer Ben H. Lindenbusch by a near 2-1 vote...
...Lindenbusch, 53, had an uphill fight all the way, for he was reduced to fault-finding with an administration that had done a creditable job. Ray Tucker, 64, could point to an ambitious urban renewal program, a start on expressways, a successful $110 million bond issue for programs ranging from new street lights to a planetarium, an improved salary schedule for city officials-and, importantly, a happy way of rallying businessmen and newspapers to his causes. Conceding that Lindenbusch stood to lose by at least 25,000 votes-a margin they hoped would narrow as the G.O.P. gained momentum...
...Republicans mounted a hot campaign by charging Democratic election frauds in Chicago in the last presidential election. They set trees out in buckets on downtown sidewalks, proclaiming: BEAUTIFY OUR STREETS-ELECT LINDY. But Lindenbusch himself put on a stumbling, colorless campaign, and the Republican effort came to nothing. Ray Tucker won every one of St. Louis' 28 wards, and it was widely agreed that Ben Lindenbusch, who had never before run for public office, never should again...
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