Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publisher of the prosperous Long Island daily, Newsday (circ. 413,000), and heir presumptive to the owner and editor-in-chief, Captain Harry F. Guggenheim, 76. As befits such an occasion, the Captain threw a luncheon for 900 in Garden City that was a must for every New York politician from Governor Rockefeller and Senators Javits and Kennedy down to 20 of Nassau and Suffolk counties' senators and assemblymen...
...special commission suggested the two equitable plans to the General Court. Drawn primarily with the Supreme Court's ruling in mind, the proposed districts were a politician's nightmare. Finally Governor John A. Volpe threatened to veto one scheme, charging that it favored Democratic congressional candidates. The leadership of the General Court rejected the other, claiming that it favored Republican candidates. Both the Governor and the legislature, however, agreed to approve a plan proposed by a delegation of shrewd, if self-seeking, congressmen. This plan, which the court of appeals just ruled illegal, apportioned Massachusetts so that one Republican...
...funds to the Urban League. He was absent for the vote on many bills, including civil rights bills." Floyd McKissick, CORE's national director and an advocate of black power, says that "the black community has its fingers crossed on Brooke." But McKissick also concedes: "If one is a politician in a white state, one relies on white votes. Right? Ed Brooke is one helluva politician. He has the appearance, the education, the intelligence; he has the middle-class standards white people like. If he's going to stay in politics, he'd better stay just what he's been...
...defeated in the 1950 general election, and again in 1952, then renounced politics (partly, his friends say, because of campaign slurs about his interracial marriage) until 1960, when Republicans persuaded him to run for secretary of state. His opponent was an affable, able politician named Kevin White, and while the campaign was generally free of racial smears, one slogan that popped up?VOTE WHITE?carried an innuendo that was hard to ignore. Brooke lost narrowly...
Signing autographs, shaking hands, pinching babies' cheeks and chatting with admiring Aussie lassies in miniskirts, South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky swept through a five-day visit to Australia last week like a politician campaigning for President. Back in Saigon some Vietnamese thought that he was doing just that in preparation for his nation's return to civilian rule...