Word: scranton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fired than in facing up to pressing statewide problems. Long-docile Democrats in Philadelphia chopped a tentacle off the "Octopus of Walnut Street," as their tired machine is unlovingly known, by electing a District Attorney on the Republican ticket. A Democrat surprised everybody by getting himself elected mayor of Scranton, Pa., and Republicans did the same in Binghamton, N.Y., Waterbury and New Britain, Conn., and Akron, Ohio...
Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton and Michigan's Governor Romney have all orated for Dumont. New Jersey's Republicans-faction-ridden and critically short of funds after twelve years in the wilderness-were hopeful that the Genovese case would sweep them back into the Governor's mansion and increase the present G.O.P. preponderance in the state legislature, where all 89 seats are up for election. "This is one issue the man in the street really understands" insists Dumont...
...national aspirations of his own, and is traveling about the nation making inspirational speeches about party unity; many unforgiving Republicans are positively smacking their lips in anticipation of the revenge they will take on him for his defection in '64. In Miami, Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton recently urged Republicans to isolate the "radical fringe," presumably meaning the John Birch Society. In Arizona, a syndicated columnist named Goldwater said that he thought the party might do better to exorcise its "left side...
Wary Legislators. As an interim reform, the Scranton administration last week pressed state legislators to raise magistrates' salaries, require new ones to be lawyers, cut the present number to 18, and drastically alter the case-assignment system to prevent collusion. Even that modest package is given scant chance of passage. As a troubled Scranton aide points out: "These men are probably the most powerful politicians in the state. They do favors for people every day, and state legislators are scared to death of them...
Nelson Rockefeller and Pennsylvania's William Scranton could use the veto power with a view to discrediting the poverty program. "These Northern Governors will screw this thing up so bad they can blame it all on Johnson," he charged. "This is a segregationist amendment. I understand that. I'm a segregationist...