Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clubs settle down to the less spectacular task involved in political campaigning. Perhaps the best organized club for political action in 1952 was the HYDC, whose president, Stan Tobin, had worked long and hard in the summer planning for the campaign. He had police type maps of every precinct of Cambridge, and developed a system of methodically covering as much of the area as possible. Despite its small membership, the HYDC attracted the greatest number of workers during the autumn months...
...lack of a visitor's card, chunky young (35) Poujade blandly made his way into the Deputies' lounge, stepped up to the bar and ordered a glass of wine. At the other end of the bar, a knot of Socialists glowered at this invasion of a private precinct. One of them put down his glass and growled: "All right, Monsieur Poujade. Now, repeat that we are all rotten and bought...
...Johnson said, he felt a certain kinship toward Ike; besides, he considered the President a close personal friend. As for exerting his influence in the Senate on behalf of any candidate, Johnson said: "I can't turn the Senate into a nominating convention ... I wouldn't make precinct captains out of the Senators even if I could...
...glorified copy boy," pitched his scorn at the Sun's twelve editorial writers. They became, to their surprise, a major campaign issue as "the nine old men in the ivory tower" and "the cowardly nine residing in the dark corners of Baltimore county"-meaning the suburbs. At precinct meetings and campaign crab feasts, beaming Tommy D'Alesandro poked fun at the Sun. "No newspaper,'' cried he, "will boss...
Defiantly, Kennelly ran for the Democratic nomination on his own. Against him, the organization had 48 of the 50 Democratic ward bosses, 30,000 well-oiled precinct workers, and endorsements from both U.S. Senator Paul Douglas and the nation's top Democrat, Adlai Stevenson, who broke his own rule against taking sides in primaries because of "my personal respect and friendship" for Dick Daley, Director of Revenue in Stevenson's administration...