Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pollsters predicted that John Kennedy would win nine of the state's ten Congressional districts from Hubert Humphrey. The Massachusetts Senator carried only six districts, however, with a scant 56 per cent of the popular vote...
...political weather vane for the national election, the Wisconsin primary--pioneered by Gov. Robert La-Follette in 1903 as the first in the nation--has failed to bend even to popular hurricanes. In 1932, Wisconsin Democrats went for Al Smith, the rest of the nation for Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1952, state Republicans chose Robert A. Taft, while everyone else liked Gen. Dwight Eisenhower...
...temporary paralysis Gordon's withdrawal has caused in the B.U. movement and the vacuums it exposed in the SDS thinking lend an uneasy credence to the popular moderate axiom on radical protestors--the worst thing that can happen to them is to get what they...
...perennial complaints about the House system. It also contained suggestions for improving the Houses, but the HPC emphasized that these were not definite proposals, merely a "platform for discussion." As such, the report means little, but it should remind the Administration that the present House system is not universally popular...
KENNEDY is said to be consummate behind-the-scenes man, a reputation deriving largely from his masterful work for brother John in 1960. Public opinion polls of the last year and a half suggest he is also a popular as any politician has a right to be. So it shouldn't be any great leap of the imagination to view him as virtually the ideal candidate, a one-man combine of the goods and the ability to sell them...