Word: lucey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brannan farm plan. He hammered the Administration for "no new ideas, no bold action, no blare of bugles." Kennedy impressed crowds and seemingly, most of the state's Democratic leaders-apart from Wisconsin's Governor Gaylord Nelson, who leans toward Stevenson or Humphrey. Said State Chairman Pat Lucey, who trailed at Kennedy's heels through the three-day tour: "He'd win the primary if it were held tomorrow...
Just as they were about to score, State Chairman Patrick J. Lucey, Stevenson-pledged but Kennedy-prone, a protégé of Wisconsin's Johnson-baiting Senator William Proxmire, called a quick meeting of about a dozen of the 27 members of the party's administrative committee, got them to vote for an innocent statement in favor of allowing Wisconsin voters "to participate as fully as possible" in the Wisconsin primary. Then, before anyone knew what he was up to, Chairman Lucey mailed letters of invitation and copies of the statement to seven top Democratic hopefuls: Humphrey...
Insull complained about a piece by Scripps-Howard's Washington Correspondent Charles Lucey citing "racketeering practices of a kind that sent the Samuel Insulls and Richard Whitneys to jail." He objected to the words of Historian
...Insull, these critics charge "that we Insulls were convicted of certain crimes when, in fact, we were acquitted on every occasion." * He noted that he was "indissolubly linked" with his father, heading the same companies, accused of the same misdeeds, standing trial in the same courts. Against Correspondent Lucey, nine Scripps-Howard papers. Authors Schlesinger and Trombley and their publishers, Insull filed libel suits for $4,000,000. Said he: "This marks the first attempt of us Insulls to strike back at a 25-year unorganized but consistent campaign to vilify...
...Lucey commented that he could not give any substantial information about the charges because he did not know more than he had read in the newspapers...