Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impressive in one sense: it was more than twice the combined totals won by Progressive Henry Wallace and Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond in 1948 and was the largest third-party turnout since Robert La Follette garnered nearly 17% in 1924. (Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party ran second with 27.4% in 1912.) However, outside the Deep South his showing shrank dramatically below his standing in the polls through the late summer and early fall. He failed to prove his contention that the "rednecks" he bragged about were sufficiently numerous or widely enough distributed to people a national movement (see following...
...legions in Ethiopia. After World War II service as OWI foreign-lan-guage chief, Cranston became a staunch world federalist, then helped found the liberal California Democratic Council. In 1958 he became California's first Democratic Controller in 72 years. A former Stanford track star, Cranston, 54, easily ran past his Republican opponent, the state's fustian Superintendent of Public Instruction, Max Rafferty...
...native of Maine, Edward J. Gurney migrated to Florida in 1948, was later elected mayor of Winter Park, and, in 1962, a U.S. Representative. Now he becomes the first Republican since Reconstruction to be sent to the Senate from Florida. To defeat former Democratic Governor LeRoy Collins, Conservative Gurney ran on a record that includes votes against civil rights legislation, foreign aid, and that "expensive boondoggle," the war on poverty...
Perhaps the strangest thing about the 1968 House races was that both parties ran scared. In private conversations, Democratic and Republican incumbents alike suspected that they would not be seeing a lot of their old friends when the 91st convened. But if the House contests proved anything at all, it was that the American voter was considerably less disgruntled with the state of the union than had been thought?or at least that he was not ready to blame his representatives in Congress...
That same day the black student organization Afro ran a half-page advertisement in this newspaper putting the complaint into sharper focus...