Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hawaii: Religion will swing some Catholics to Kennedy, but the powerful Teamsters and Longshoremen are doing nothing for him. Nixon...
...That veteran of many a campaign tea party, Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, downed coffee and cake on a four-day swing through The Bronx, Brooklyn and Long Island, and pulled out one organ stop farther than anyone else has. Referring to the wartime deaths of her eldest son Joe and her son-in-law, Rose Kennedy told the housewives: "Jack knows the sorrow, the grief, the tears and the heartbreaking grief and loneliness that come to a family when a mother has lost her eldest son and a young bride has lost her bridegroom. So I know that Jack will...
...different. I don't include the Phoenix Theater in this." About the future of the theatre, George Abbott feels pleased. "American theater is the best in the world now. We have the most ideas, the finest acting. Of course the fashion may change tomorrow. The pendulum may swing back any time...
...Chicago-and in the famous Treaty of Fifth Avenue huddle-Nixon went all out to make New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller his running mate, aware of his crowd-pleasing talents, his appeal to independents, and the need for his help to swing New York's 45 electoral votes. Rockefeller refused to join the ticket, but agreed to support Nixon. The Midwestern Republicans, still resentful of Lodge's role in derailing Ohio's Taft in 1952, wanted Nixon to pick Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton, G.O.P. National Chairman, for his Vice President. Everybody agreed...
...Many a vice-presidential nominee has failed to swing his home state to his ticket. Examples: Illinois' Adlai E. Stevenson (grandfather of the sometime presidential candidate) in 1900, New York's Franklin Roosevelt in 1920, Iowa's Henry Wallace in 1940, California's Earl Warren in 1948, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver...