Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last hurrah for the late Boston politician John Francis Fitzgerald, Grandson John Fitzgerald Kennedy rechristened the 92-ft. presidential yacht Barbara Anne (named by Ike for his granddaughter) as the Honey Fitz...
Died. Max Hymans, 61, a native Parisian who was an engineer, patent attorney, politician, and wartime Resistance leader before becoming board chairman of the government-owned Air France in 1948; of cancer; in St. Cloud, near Paris...
...audience clotted the aisles and pressed close to the stage, waving huge Goldwater placards. "This country," said Goldwater, "is being caught up in a wave of conservatism that could easily become the phenomenon of our time. Nobody knows for sure its present strength or its future potential. But every politician, newspaperman, analyst and civic leader knows that something is afoot that could drastically alter our course as a nation." It has an anchor in the "conservative movement" among college students, he said, who "know that this thing that has gone along for 30 years and has cost $400 billion under...
Welch's Mein Kampf is a masterpiece of invective called The Politician. Shown only to close friends, the book is now being withdrawn from circulation, largely because its judgments on contemporary leaders repelled more people than they attracted. Some Welchian estimates...
Died. Joseph Ridgway ("Uncle Joe") Grundy, 98, millionaire worsted-yarn spinner and Republican politician for more than half a century, whose expression of apple-cheeked innocence belied a diehard brand of economic reaction now known in political dictionaries as "Grundyism"; at Nassau, in the Bahamas. The son of a Pennsylvania Quaker textile magnate who dabbled in politics, Grundy learned early about men and machines, efficiently mobilized them for causes challenged even by some fellow Republicans as "Government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public," but which he proudly pursued as articles of faith "next...