Word: pucinski
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...major legislation. During the relatively quiescent Eisenhower years, Sam Rayburn in the House and Lyndon Johnson in the Senate provided strong party leadership, giving the opposition Democrats a measure of cohesion and guidance. Speaker John McCormack and Senate Leader Mike Mansfield offer no comparable direction today. Illinois Democrat Roman Pucinski complains: "The Speaker never intended to be the party leader, and he doesn't seek it. The D S G. [Democratic Study Group, a liberal COalition] has fallen apart. The Southern bloc is without a leader. A legislative vacuum is developing...
Some of Agnew's major miscues have been unintentional ethnic slurs. He jovially referred to a Japanese-American reporter accompanying him as a "fat Jap." In Chicago, where the Congressmen have names like Pucinski, Kluczynski and Rostenkowski, he answered a question about the dearth of Negroes in his audiences by saying: "Very frankly, when I am moving in a crowd I don't look and say, 'Well, there's a Negro, there's an Italian, and there's a Greek and there's a Polack.' " Before newsmen late last week, Agnew sought...
...full of prosperous second-generation Poles, by an easy 18,000-vote margin over Zolton Ferency, "the man with the ethnic name." Perhaps the most clear-cut demonstration came in Chicago's heavily Polish Eleventh District, which has been represented for years by a professional Pole, Representative Roman Pucinski. Pucinski is part owner of a Polish-language radio station, his mother has her own Polish program on another station, and no one is a more assiduous attender of parades and anniversary celebrations. Two years ago, Pucinski won handily with a 31,500 majority. This year he barely squeaked past...
...Roman Pucinski's proposal to reduce the maximum draft age from 26 to 21 would relieve young men from uncertainty about their futures without compromising the national defense. Removing the threat of the draft would make 22 to 26 year olds desirable to employers...
...Pucinski's proposal would not exempt from the draft those who get deferments until they turn 22. Everyone would have the same chance of being called up by his draft board; if a man chose to take a deferment for study or some other reason, he would be drafted when his deferment expired even if he were over...