Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rebug to the senior party, was the convention's decision not to seat the New Jersey delegation. The state's senior party, led by its chairman Webster Todd, had selected the delegation after ousting YR chairman Richard F. Plechner last year. Plechner was the leader of the far-right Rat Finks, an anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-Negro faction of the YR's, numbering about 100, who managed to capture the leadership of New Jersey's 6000-member YR organization...
...convention, Plechner led the successful drive against seating his own state's delegation. The move was a deliberate slap at the senior Party, which had condemned the Rat Finks against Van Sickle's bitter objection, and which had subsequently called for Plechner's resignation as national YR vice-chairman. The pro-Plechner militants condemned the GOP National Committee for interference in YR affairs. They also passed a YR resolution extending "our thanks and appreciation to Richard Plechner for his effort on behalf of the YRNF and to this country." The YR convention proceedings helped increase the group's autonomy...
...ultraconservative clique known as the "syndicate," the Young Republicans have been an embarrassment to party professionals for years. The 1963 convention degenerated into a near riot when rightists told moderates to "go back to Russia." The dominant faction in New Jersey, which not inappropriately called itself the "Rat Finks," later made headlines with its penchant for songs lampooning Jews and Negroes...
...they were at the beginning. Not only did they reject all overtures from the National Committee; they also seated a right-wing Rhode Island delegation officially disbanded by the Republican state chairman, and refused to recognize the duly elected New Jersey contingent because it was opposed by the "Rat Finks...
...anti-inflammatory drugs, how they work and which are best. How they work on some cells at some times seems clear: the cortisone group of hormones strengthens the lysosome membrane, making it less likely to spill out its enzymes. But the field is booby-trapped with paradoxes. If a rat is given a local injection of histamine, a notorious cause of inflammation, it has a strong reaction. But if the rat first gets a histamine shot into its abdominal cavity, said Dr. Glenn, a later local injection will have little effect...