Word: tunneys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clearly reflected in the voting patterns. Rizzo captured 49% of the vote, amassing up to 80% majorities in white working-class and middle-class areas. Green, 32, son and namesake of the longtime Philadelphia political boss who died in 1963, polled only 35%, despite glittering endorsements from Senators John Tunney and Edward Kennedy and the tardy backing of Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp. Green ran most strongly in black wards and well-to-do Chestnut Hill...
...other issue on which Rizzo capitalized was Green's campaign. During the last week or so, Green brought in outside liberals to support his candidacy. Such Congressmen as Father Drinan and Abner Mikva came, as did Senator John Tunney of California. Allard Lowenstein and Ramsey Clark endorsed Green. So did Ted Kennedy. ("The Green family and the Kennedy family have always been very close," Teddy said in TV spots.) But Rizzo told the voters that he didn't need outside help, and that they didn't either...
...WHAT of meetings held in a less formal setting and for political purposes? On July 4, 1968, Congressman John Tunney gave a campaign speech at an Independence Day celebration in Dateland Park, Coachella, California. A group of Mexican-Americans in the crowd of 6000 "engaged in rhythmical clapping and some shouting for about five or ten minutes" during the speech in protest against Tunney's refusal to support the grape boycott. Tunney finished his speech despite the protest, pausing to urge the demonstrators to be grateful that they lived in a country that allowed such protest. Neither Tunney...
...time? Since the meeting occurred indoors in a university and was not a campaign rally, the Court, were it to hear such a case, might feel that the customs and usages of such an event would warrant a narrower definition of permissive conduct than applied in the Tunney case...
...spied on a number of U.S. politicians, including Illinois State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, now a U.S. Senator. Ervin decided that the time had come for his subcommittee to act. In four weeks of hearings, he and his colleagues, including Liberal Democrats Ted Kennedy, Birch Bayh and John Tunney, heard 45 witnesses. Among them...