Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final tones, did former Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Strengthening Rocky's hand, the Democrats have not even been able to come up with a Senate candidate to face G.O.P. Senator Jacob Javits. Desperate for names, Democratic leaders put out word that their choice was U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche. then U.S. Information Agency Chief Edward R. Murrow-without even bothering to tell Bunche or Murrow about it first. Embarrassed, both men quickly ruled themselves out of the race...
...special treatment from the department, Estes had invoked the names of Johnson and the late House Speaker Sam Rayburn. But when the same official, one Carl J. Miller, publicly testified before the subcommittee, he omitted Johnson's name, mentioning only Rayburn and Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough...
...Teaching Machines. Liberal Democrat Ralph Richardson, 43, a U.C.L.A. English professor and president of the Los Angeles school board, flew his own plane all over the state to argue for a program of team teaching, smaller classes, summer schools, teaching machines. Opposing excesses of discipline that would turn the schools into "penal institutions," Richardson argued that California's teaching of the basics, especially English, could be systematically upgraded "without wasting energy in name calling or labels about 'progressive education' or the 'three R's.' " He got well-organized support from liberals and labor...
...most eminent guests, fulfill obligations, perceive who's up and who's down, and keep the party lively with "interesting" people. Some honorary-degree recipients have become the equivalent of Supreme Court Justices on the Washington party circuit-distinguished figures with lifetime tenure. Eleanor Roosevelt and Ralph Bunche long ago lost count of their degrees. Herbert Hoover has 85, Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...Action. In Texas, that is about as damaging as calling him a Communist. Some Connally supporters did, in fact, place an ad that posed this choice: "Connally Go Ahead Versus C.I.O. Red." Neither did Connally's backers discourage the notion that Don Yarborough is kin to Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, who has been linked to Billie Sol Estes. (Don and Ralph are not related...