Word: pelle
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Rhode Island. Socialite Claiborne Pell, 41, a wealthy investment banker, is a newcomer to active politics, although his family has long been politically prominent (Great-Great-Granduncle George Dallas was James K. Folk's Vice President). A Princeton honor graduate and a onetime diplomat in Czechoslovakia and Italy, Democrat Pell speaks four languages, advocates a down-the-line program of liberal legislation from minimum wages to the Forand bill...
...Pell, who was Ambassador to Portugal and later to Hungary under Roosevelt, termed Kennedy "an effective man," but was not sure whether his administration would be a liberal, FDR-type. "I am probably the only person to say 'I don't know what to expect...
Herbert Claiborne Pell '06, former Congressman from New York and prominent Democratic campaign organizer, said last night that Smith, unlike Kennedy in 1960, never defended his church-state stand. The smaller amount of subversive anti-Catholic action this fall, he added, indicates that religion has become a more sophisticated issue...
Kennedy, as expected, swept predominantly Catholic Rhode Island, taking the local state ticket with him. Lt. Gov. John Notte, keeping pace with the Kennedy total, upset Republican Gov. Christopher DelSesto. Clairborne Pell, winner of a three-cornered Senatorial primary fight, ran ahead of Kennedy to win by a 150,000 plurality...
Rhode Island. The surprise primary victory of Democrat Claiborne deBorda Pell (TIME, Oct. 10) upset the campaign plans of Raoul Archambault Jr., who thought he would be running against one of two old-line Democrats: former Governor Dennis Roberts or former U.S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Archambault, a conservative's conservative, has shifted to a frontal assault on Democratic spending. A strong Democratic trend, a big Catholic vote and the proximity of New Englander Kennedy should put Pell over...