Word: proteg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real member of Speaker McCormack's family is Nephew Edward McCormack. The Speaker regards Edward almost as his own son and surely as a protegé. In 1966, Voloshen brokered political and financial labor union support for Edward McCormack's unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Massachusetts...
...crony he certainly is; yet this assessment could prove to be unfair. A protegé of Sam Rayburn's, the late Speaker of the House, and of Johnson's, Thornberry had an indifferent record during his first years in Congress, but eventually established himself as a man of moderately liberal views, responsive to the needs of an urban America. In 41 years on the bench, most recently as a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (covering most of the Deep South and the Panama Canal Zone), he consistently fought segregation...
Lucey, an astute campaigner who knows state politics like his own back yard, will be opposed in the Sept. 13 primary by Democratic National Committeeman David Carley, 37. A protegé of Hubert Humphrey's political intimate, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, Carley supported Humphrey in 1960 and has been tagged the Humphrey candidate, though in fact Humphrey opposed Carley's entering the race against Lucey. Whichever candidate wins, he faces an uphill fight against able Republican Incumbent Warren P. Knowles...