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Word: patly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their most serious rival was the man who wasn't there. Muttered Candidate Hubert Humphrey: "It's frustrating as hell to keep hearing, 'We're with you, Hubert, as long as Adlai isn't in.' Always provisional, always conditional." Said California's Pat Brown to a friend: "It's the most remarkable thing I've ever seen in politics. A man is beaten twice, says repeatedly he doesn't want to run, and he still has enough hold on the people to make them wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Waiting Game | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...Democrat with whom I've discussed it in California in the last twelve months has been reluctant to have a serious interparty split," said Kennedy. And, he admitted sadly, he could find "no Democrat" in California who thought he should risk a primary fight against Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Straws in the Wind | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...After a two-day swing through the Middle West, including a three-hour conference with Adlai Stevenson, Pat Brown headed back to California with the an nouncement that he would be "only" a favorite-son candidate. Two days of shoptalk with the Democratic elders had convinced him that he should not be a serious candidate for the presidency. ¶From Washington, word leaked out that Favorite Son Brown might have his sights focused on a lesser prize. In a September conference with Lyndon Johnson, the peripatetic Brown said frankly that Johnson could never win the California primary, though he thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Straws in the Wind | 11/2/1959 | See Source »

...long-fragmented Democratic Party. But his job has just begun: the statewide water-development plan, for example, must still be approved by the electorate next year. The state legislature will not get around to the juicy job of reapportioning California's legislative and congressional districts until 1961. Pat Brown knows that his job and his position with Californians will suffer if he spends all his energies on presidential campaigning, and he also knows that there is no other California Democrat in sight to take over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Now, Brown? | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...Pat Brown is no political anomaly and he has contracted a good case of undulant presidential fever. Two Brown agents, Lawyers Leonard Dieden and John Purchio, scouted twelve Western states last summer, reported temptingly that the West was still wild and wide open for any candidate who moved fast. At the Sun Valley Western Governors' conference .TIME, Oct. 12) Brown tried unsuccessfully to form a Western coalition behind him (and ran into a buzz-saw rival, Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols). Brown frets over the rest of the nation's indifference to Western Governors. "Nobody outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How Now, Brown? | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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