Word: macdonald
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Fresh out of Carleton College and fortified with a letter of introduction from one of his professors, Thomas B. Morgan came to New York City in 1949 for an interview at an earnest little journal of ideas called Politics. "You've got a job," said Editor Dwight Macdonald, handing Morgan a broom. "Sweep out the room. We just folded...
...Markey tells it, however, the decision to run was almost a now-or-never proposition. Since 1954, the Seventh District has been represented in Congress by Torbert H. Macdonald '40. Macdonald became ill last spring, and there were many reports that he would not run for re-election. In May, he died unexpectedly, and 12 candidates eventually announced that they would run for his seat. But Markey was the first. The reason he decided to stay in the race, despite the presence of several mayors, a state senator, and Macdonald's administrative assistant, was that the re-election rate...
...situation didn't look good for Markey. He was from Macdonald's home town of Medford, and many of the political elders there had told him he would some day follow Macdonald's footsteps to the Capitol. But not yet, not at age 29. Markey himself felt the superficial differences keenly. Macdonald went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, was captain of the Harvard football team, was the Winthrop House roommate of former president John F. Kennedy '40 and, like Kennedy, was a World War'II Navy veteran. Markey, by contrast, is a milkman's son who went to Boston...
Markey won the Democratic primary with about 20 per cent of the vote, and Macdonald's administrative assistant finished second with about 16 per cent of the vote. Although in most Massachusetts primaries a candidate's finishing position corresponds directly to the amount of money he spent, Markey broke that rule too. While the candidate who spent the most money finished well behind Markey and the others, Markey, who ranked only fifth in campaign expenditures, finished first. And he was well on his way to Washington, because he faced only token opposition from a weak republican and an even weaker...
...PETER MacDONALD, chairman, Navajo Tribal Council: I grew up in the middle of the Navajo reservation. There were no taxes, welfare or store, newspaper or anything, not even radio. Talk about separate. Up until I was seven and left the reservation, the only people in this world were Navajos. Respect for certain things was drilled into me. Also not to question those things which the elders have put together. When I left the reservation I did well because the basic thing that motivated me was respect for what was already accomplished. Today young people are beginning to question all kinds...