Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Influence & Intellect. Born in Pittsburgh on June 18, 1889, he went to work at 14 as an office boy for a leader of the moribund local Democratic machine. As labor's influence began to grow, the party began to revive, and Dave Lawrence became a tough, effective precinct captain. In 1912, he attended the Democratic presidential convention, was smitten with the polish and intellect of the nominee that year, Woodrow Wilson. Sighed Lawrence: "That man has the real class...
...hand-pick a few of the elite to vote in each precinct or ward, give these results to the news services and let them pick the winner for us? Wouldn't that save a lot of people the time and effort it takes to cast their ballots...
Fading Blue Collars. A major?perhaps decisive?factor in the G.O.P. resurgence was the fact that National Chairman Bliss's "cities strategy" was beginning to pay off. During the campaign, he conducted more than 50 "big-city workshops" for precinct...
...quiet scorn, the President called Nixon "a chronic campaigner" whose "problem is to find fault with his country and with his Government every two years." He declared that Nixon "doesn't serve his country well" by broadcasting such criticism "in the hope that he can pick up a precinct or two or a ward or two." In the most caustic gibe of all, he said of Nixon: "He never did really recognize and realize what was going on when he had an official position in the Government. You remember what President Eisenhower said: that if you would give...
...computer to expedite the footwork, and make sure that each canvasser is used to the best advantage. Each of the 15 zones will have a battery of ten telephones working on election eve and election day to remind the right voters to go to the polls. These old-fashioned precinct labors have nothing to do with the issues, but on them may hang the continuance of an old political dynasty or the survival of the Congressman who calls himself the "ambassador from the Great Society to the people of southwestern Ohio...