Word: reformers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again, the Democrats had been split by a bloody primary campaign. His opponent was Baltimore Contractor George P. Mahoney, a buffled-headed segregationist who campaigned on the slogan: "Your home is your castle?protect it." Agnew staked out a moderate position, emphasizing the need for fiscal responsibility and tax reform...
Fresh from the conventions, the Senators and Representatives who convened in rump session last week had one new item of special concern on their unfinished calendar of business. In both houses, Democrats and Republicans called for early and effective reform of the nation's electoral system...
...appeal for change came first from Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson, who rose to denounce the national conventions as "antiquated and undemocratic." He proposed the formation of a 30-man bipartisan commission, including Congressmen, candidates' representatives and presidential appointees, to hammer out a reform program to be presented next August. The reforms could take any of several shapes, suggested Nelson: a national presidential primary, a streamlined convention system, or a combination of both...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger, 68, Presiding Bishop from 1959 to 1965 of the 3.5 million-member Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S. and one of its leading advocates of social reform. Though patient as Job on some matters, Lichtenberger was no middle-of-the-roader on others, urged his flock to join civil rights protest movements and pointedly reminded them that "each of us is involved in the struggle for racial justice by our prayers, our citizenship and our giving...
...installed Onganía in Buenos Aires' Casa Rosada. The liberal-minded lieutenant general, often acting in concert with his brother Alvaro, Argentina's Ambassador to the U.S., had taken a major role in shaping the military government's "Argentine revolution." That program promised economic reform to bolster the country's flagging economy. But Alsogaray favored a more democratic political base for the revolution, while the stiff-necked President favored a tightly controlled corporate state and resisted all politically broadening efforts. The difference brought the two increasingly into public conflict...