Word: scrantons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July. Now the kids were committed to vote as nearly like the actual delegation as possible-so much so that many mock delegations got a stream of telephoned instructions from real politicians throughout the convention. Beside that, tough-minded and thoroughly grown-up G.O.P. professionals backing Rockefeller, Goldwater and Scranton were in town pushing their candidates. They brought money for convention expenses: $800 from Rocky's camp, $400 from Goldwater, $100 each from the war chests of Scranton, Nixon and Lodge...
...voting, the Washington and Lee delegates nominated Barry Goldwater on the second ballot, named Pennsylvania's Governor Scranton his running mate. Through it all, Barry stayed near a phone in Washington, was plugged into the gymnasium public-address system minutes after he won and said solemnly, "I accept with great humility. I hope and pray it is a good omen for July and November...
...Ohio's Oberlin College, which boasts the oldest campus convention in the U.S. (the first was in 1860), delegates picked Scranton on the fourth ballot, chose Kentucky Senator Thruston Morton for Vice President...
...California's Claremont Colleges, spring-fevered delegates came within a whisker of nominating Bishop Homer Aubrey Tomlinson of the Theocratic Party as the Republican candidate, cooled off by the second ballot and picked Scranton, with Oregon's Governor Mark Hatfield for Vice President...
...Morgan State College, a Negro school in Maryland, Scranton got 720 votes, Rockefeller 323 and Goldwater, a nonadvocate of the civil rights bill, a meager...