Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning of the last session, Byrd was wary of the new President. The majority leader was unsure whether Carter would give him proper deference. He also resented Carter's campaign attacks on Congress. So when the President's nomination of former Kennedy Aide Theodore Sorensen as CIA director ran into trouble, Byrd sounded no warning. Says a junior Democratic Senator: "He just wanted to teach Carter a lesson." Sorensen withdrew under pressure. That lesson was followed by others, as Byrd repeatedly criticized Carter's legislative liaison staff as bumbling, finally declaring of the President last June: "He's in over...
...turned down because of a double hernia and lung calcification. (During the crucial West Virginia presidential primary in 1960, he was unjustly accused of being a draft dodger by John Kennedy's supporters.) He served as Minnesota state director of war-production training, and in 1943 ran for mayor of Minneapolis. He lost, largely because the liberal vote was split between the Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor Party. After the election Humphrey brought the two together in a merger that has dominated Minnesota politics ever since. Later he pushed out the Communists, who had become influential...
...next head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whom President Carter is likely to nominate this week, will have a lot of image repairing to do at the house that J. Edgar Hoover built and ran for 48 years with a handful of longtime aides. New revelations about the director's imperial peccadilloes have emerged regularly since his death in 1972. Last week the Justice Department released a report that added more detail to the picture of petty privilege and cronyism at the FBI's top level during the Hoover reign...
...differs from both that of the students and of Jewett. Young suggests that the performance of the students has been something less than confidence-inspiring. He says that the decision to restrict students' access to the office phones, for example, in part resulted from the high phone bill students ran up the previous year. Most of the calls, Young added, were placed to a single number...
...returned to Crab Orchard after the war, he had lost interest in the Klan but not in Baskin. Byrd, who played a mighty fine, foot-stomping hillbilly fiddle, asked Baskin what he should do next. Said the Grand Dragon: "Take that fiddle and use it." In 1946 he ran for the state legislature and fiddled his way into office. Playing such tunes as Turkey in the Straw and Old Joe Clark, he drew campaign crowds and attention in town after town, beat out twelve other Democratic primary candidates, and went on to win the election...