Word: missouri
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...President held a commanding lead in ten of the 16 key states and a comfortable margin in five of the remaining six. Texas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Florida can be considered solid for Nixon; he led by margins of more than 22 points. California, New York, Michigan, New Jersey and Wisconsin can all be considered as leaning toward Nixon; his spread in all five ranged between twelve and 22 points. Only one pivotal state, Massachusetts, seemed to be going the other way. Combining the states that are either solid for Nixon or leaning Republican...
...present system is a scandal, perhaps the fatal flaw in American democracy," declares Los Angeles Fund Raiser Harold Willens. "It's the nastiest thing in all of politics, and it may destroy our whole political system," contends Missouri Judge George W. Lehr. "There's a smell, an odor about it, and unless things change the system cannot survive," insists Larry O'Brien, campaign manager for George McGovern. Says Senator Edward Kennedy: "It is the most flagrant single abuse in our democracy, the unconscionable power of money...
There are plenty of politicians who do not condone that kind of coziness. Christopher Bond, Republican candidate for Governor of Missouri, has refused a large contribution from a sharp operator hoping to benefit from parimutuel betting if it becomes law there. Illinois Republican Governor Richard Ogilvie declares that he never looks at lists of contributors to his re-election drive so that he can say that he is not influenced by them. Iowa's Republican Governor Robert Ray has lost some contributions because he rejects any check larger than $3,000 as being too much to take from a single...
...glories of patriotism have never quite got through to Drew Dixon (Barry Brown), who had a brother killed at Chickamauga. Little wonder that when the Union Army passes through Greenville, Ohio, pressing unwilling recruits into service, Drew hides under a table, then speeds off to Missouri...
...Cain. Supported mainly by the Mormon Book of Abraham, a document "translated" from Egyptian burial papyri by Joseph Smith in 1835, this teaching resembles the Southern Christian theology that was used to justify slavery. Historians have noted that the Mormons, who began as egalitarians, were sojourning in slave-state Missouri-and having serious troubles with their Missouri neighbors about their free black brethren-when Smith's revelation was made known. The curse does not apply to other black peoples, such as those in the South Pacific, who have become members of the Mormon priesthood...