Word: overhaul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well be right as far as the A.I.A. plan, specifically, is concerned. But there is no doubt about the motoring public's desire for some sort of radical overhaul of the existing system. If nothing else, the new A.I.A. plan provides welcome evidence that the auto-insurance industry itself is at last trying to come up with some answers...
...manful efforts to create a semblance of unity in the Democratic Party had failed in at least one notable instance. Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy demanded that, in exchange for his backing, Humphrey promise to support a change of government in Saigon, reform the draft and overhaul Democratic Party machinery. Replied Humphrey: "I am not prone to start meeting conditions." While Lyndon Johnson made his first formal speech on the Vice President's behalf during the week, he was all but overshadowed once again by his party's dissenters. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh charged that...
...Cabinet meetings are as intellectually demanding as his University of Montreal law classes used to be, and during last summer's 90° heat they sometimes ran for more than six hours. One result is that in two months he has set in motion the most sweeping overhaul of Canada's government machinery since...
...Overhaul. Last week, as they took command of the barnacled party machinery, Humphrey and O'Brien moved quickly to discard some of the Pedernales Mafia. John Criswell, an L.B.J. subaltern who antagonized many delegates with the stringent security rules he imposed as manager of the Chicago convention, resigned as treasurer of the National Committee, along with 16 other members. The 72-member committee staff will be more than doubled, with most of the new workers coming from the Vice President's campaign staff...
...Brien's conditions for accepting the double role of campaign manager and national chairman was that he have absolute authority. However, he will not stay long enough to effect a complete overhaul of the creaky party machinery. Serving without pay, O'Brien, 51, promised to remain only through the election. He is anxious to return to private life and write a book about his years in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations...