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Word: moosers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...figure by which John Kennedy defeated him eight years ago. Yet with 31,085,267 popular votes to Humphrey's 30,760,301, Nixon still claimed merely 43.5% of the electorate's approval - the lowest percentage since Woodrow Wilson, battling both Republican William Howard Taft and Bull Mooser Teddy Roosevelt, won with 41.9% of the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: Poor Prospects for Reform | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

...like to put Red China in the U.N., settle the Viet Nam issue in the Security Council, and "cut out social security to people like me and give it to the people who need it." Sounds kinda pinko, eh? It was Alf London speaking, the unreconstructed prairie Bull Mooser who went on to become Governor of Kansas and Republican candidate for President in 1936. Laughing fit to bust britches, Landon tossed out a bagful of prickly pears as he celebrated his 80th birthday in Topeka, including a couple for today's Republicans: "They've got to quit kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 15, 1967 | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

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