Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...file workers, especially in the ethnic neighborhoods of the North, are deserting the Democrats for the Wallace cause. Many Northern Democratic Congressmen are planning to instruct these voters how to split their tickets on Nov. 5 so that they can support Wallace without forgetting to pull levers for local Democrats. In the South, numerous conservative Democrats are openly allied with Wallace. Others are deserting to the G.O.P. Last week six cronies of Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, including State Comptroller General James Bentley, renounced their Democratic credentials and joined the Republicans. There is speculation in Atlanta that if Nixon...
...into a 1-hour and 40-minute recess owing to what Mansfield testily termed "a complex development." That development: Senator Allen Ellender's 78th birthday, which he marked by whipping up his annual luncheon of Louisiana creole gumbo for Lady Bird Johnson, Lynda Johnson Robb and other noted local la dies. A minor piece of farm legislation was before the Senate, and it could not proceed without Agriculture Committee Chairman Ellender...
...last two months." A New York-based writer visits Baltimore and Washington, and finds that "crime-Negro crime-is almost the only topic of conversation." The Aldine Printing Co. in Los Angeles, the world's largest manufacturer of bumper stickers, reports that its bestseller is SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE, the old Birch slogan...
...employees, members of local 254 of the Building Services International Union, have continued working on what their negotiator called a "day-to-day" basis after their contract expired July...