Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Washington (9): Local issues prevail. Up for re-election and in trouble is Democratic Governor Al ("The Rose") Rosellini, who has recently grabbed desperately for Kennedy's coattails and slowed him down. Rosellini's administration, flecked with scandal and heavy with Roman Catholic officeholders, has stirred up mild anti-Catholicism among Washington's Scandinavian Lutherans. NIXON...
Also Imbalance. There is something to be said for Soapy's New Deal. Previous administrations had been seared with scandal; Soapy has been scrupulously clean. He recruited a whole new crop of enthusiastic youngsters into politics. He pushed through a state Fair Employment Practices law, and under him several Negro Democrats have risen to prominent office-including Auditor General Otis...
Illinois. Democrat Otto Kerner, 52, a matinee-idol Cook County (Chicago) judge with an impeccable record, is being matched against lackluster Republican Incumbent William Stratton, 46, trying for an unprecedented third term on a record tinged with statehouse scandal. Judge Kerner, the favorite, has endorsements from such normally Republican papers as the Peoria Journal Star and Rockford Star...
Washington. Conservative Republican Lloyd J. Andrews, Spokane apple rancher turned state superintendent of public instruction, is trying to unseat Democratic Incumbent Albert ("The Rose") Rosellini, 50. Rosellini has a strong machine, but his first term was flecked with scandal; Andrews is a vibrant campaigner but lacks his opponent's political savvy. The Rose has a leaf-thin margin...
...Victorian house he shares with his sister Alma, a spinsterish ex-schoolteacher. Each day is an agreeable carbon of the one before. Boyd grumbles contentedly about Alma's bluntness, stinginess and love of gossip. Alma gets comfortably cross at Boyd's deafness, his lack of interest in scandal, his irritating habit of forgetting to flush the toilet...