Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going Dutch with a tiny admirer, Governor George Romney, 55, enjoyed himself at the annual Tulip Festival in Holland, Michigan. Before the day ended, Romney was out there in costume scrubbing the streets-and his demonstration that a new broom sweeps clean must have pleased Republicans who see the Governor as presidential timber for 1964. Soon to come on Romney's busy schedule is a speechmaking date in Washington at the National Press Club, a favorite proving ground for potential candidates...
...women and inspires our sons to deserve such ladies: President of Radcliffe Dr. Mary I. Bunting. He has kept the flame of Christian hope alive for his people under two tyrannies, Naziism and Communism: Bishop Otto Dibelius. Compact car with a 500-horsepower engine, the Governor of Michigan, George Romney. Beauty is her business, and every woman here and every man knows it: Elizabeth Arden. In painting, I know what I like. I enormously like Edward Hopper. A novelist, wonderful, obsessed with America, John Dos Passos. His faith and wisdom sustained the public philosophy: Rabbi Louis Finkelstein. True journalist daughter...
With a lot of politicians questioning Rocky's political future, Washington last week took an extra hard look at a visiting Republican named George Romney...
Michigan's Governor was in town to speak to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -and the businessmen liked what they heard. They gave Romney standing ovations both before and after his speech, repeatedly interrupted his address with applause. Romney preached his own gospel of individual inspiration and citizen participation in politics. Said he: "The big issue 100 years ago was whether the excess sovereignty of the states was going to destroy the Union and the Constitution. The big issue today is whether the excess concentration of federal power and sovereignty is going to destroy state, local and individual freedom...
...next day Romney was guest of honor at a reception attended by some 300 leading Washington businessmen and politicians. It was given by Mrs. J. Willard Marriott, Republican national committeewoman for the District of Columbia, a longtime Romney friend and, like Romney, a Mormon. Throughout his Washington visit, Romney steadfastly denied that he has any 1964 presidential ambitions. But both Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon* are known to look favorably on him, and it may be increasingly difficult for him to keep saying...