Word: minnesota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fewer (Florida) than he held in a survey by the correspondents one month earlier. Hubert Humphrey led in only six states and the District of Columbia, down four (Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee) from his September showing. In some of those, including New York and his home state of Minnesota, his margin was precarious. George Wallace could claim six Southern states, having picked up two (Arkansas and South Carolina). The breakdown...
HUMPHREY LEADING: District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York and Rhode Island. Total electoral votes...
...central story situation is the same: actors pretend to be Air Force bombardiers who flirt with the mimicry of death only to find that, one by one, they are really being killed on their outlandish make-believe bombing missions over Constantinople and Minnesota. The plot might well have been retrieved from Pirandello's wastebasket. Broadway these days is full of preachers who thunder that war is evil and that racial prejudice is hateful, but who seem not to have the slightest compunction about discrimination against good drama...
...Minnesota's Secretary of State Joseph L. Donovan was not about to accept petitions nominating Mrs. Charlene Mitchell, a 38-year-old Negro, and Youth Leader Mike Zagarell, 23, for President and Vice President of the U.S. The fact that Zagarell is twelve years too young to meet the legal requirements for Vice President was the least of Donovan's objections. Mrs. Mitchell and Zagarell are Communists, and the Communist Control Act of 1954 says that their party "should be outlawed" as the agent of a foreign power. Under the law, said the Minnesota Attorney General, the Communists...
...ballot now than in denying them a right they might win in the future. The court's decision confirms a growing view among constitutional lawyers that the Communist Party is indeed a legal political organization. As a result, its national ticket will be placed before the Minnesota electorate-the first time it has appeared anywhere in the U.S. since Earl Browder ran for President in more than a dozen states in 1940 and collected nearly 50,000 votes. It is probably too late for the Communist candidates to be listed in more than one or two other states...