Word: rep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon took 79 per cent of Georgia's vote, but Democratic senatorial hopeful Sam Nunn edged the more conservative Rep. Fletcher Thompson for Richard Russell's old seat. Strong support from Governor Jimmy Carter and Sen. Herman Talmadge helped Nunn in his successful...
...state's closest contest Rep. Louise Day Hicks (D-Mass) held a paper thin lead over Independent challenger J. Joseph Moakley in the 9th Congressional District. But Hicks's strength was based on early returns from her stronghold in Boston, and there was a strong possibility that Moakley would overtake her in the outlying suburbs...
Down on Cape Cod in the 12th Congressional District. Democratic Gerry Studds succeeded in his second attempt at that seat, defeating Republican William Weeks. Studds failed in 1970 to take the seat away from Rep. Hastings Keith (R-Mass.). who retired this year...
...years ago. Drinan, a talkative abase dean of the Boston College Law School challenged 12-year member Rep. Philip J. Philbin for the Democratic nomination in what was then Massachusetts's Third Congressional District Running on the wave of 1970's Kent State Cambodia uprisings. Drinan's issue was the war, and beyond that support for the administration. Philbin the second ranking Democrat on Mendel Rivers's House Armed Services Committee was a long-time hawk and administration supporter, Drinan wasn...
...press conference yesterday. City Manager John H. Corcoran and state Rep. Thomas Mahoney (D-Cambridge) said they will ask the State Department of Public Works (DPW) to re-route all trucks that do not have their origin or destination in Cambridge on to the Massachusetts Turnpike during evenings and weekends. Trucks presently use Prospect St., River St., and Western Ave. as through streets on their routes...