Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Address ing New York's Democratic Forum, former J.F.K. Speechwriter Ted Sorensen said that the 1966 election had plunged the Administration party into such "disaster and disarray" that Johnson's chances for re-election have been gravely "endangered." Sounding for all the world like an oldtime Tammany ward heeler, Sorensen bewailed the fact that "the unions can no longer deliver their members; their preachers can no longer deliver the Negroes; and the ward captains can no longer deliver the precincts." In truth, the increasingly sophisticated and independent U.S. voter has not been "deliverable," in Sorensen's terms...
...hand-pick a few of the elite to vote in each precinct or ward, give these results to the news services and let them pick the winner for us? Wouldn't that save a lot of people the time and effort it takes to cast their ballots...
...Detroit, Mayor Jerry Cavanagh lost his battle with the city's retailers, and this year the annual "Detroit Aglow" ceremony will light off on Nov. 21 instead of Nov. 28. In Chicago, Montgomery Ward sent out its holiday catalogues three weeks earlier this year than last, Marshall Field & Co. will have its Christmas trees up a week earlier, and along Michigan Avenue, the stores of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Assn. have put up their decorations two weeks earlier than last year...
There is also the possibility that Paul Ward, a second team All-Ivy selection last year, who missed most of the season with an injury, will bolster the Eli defense...
...Nixon "a chronic campaigner" whose "problem is to find fault with his country and with his Government every two years." He declared that Nixon "doesn't serve his country well" by broadcasting such criticism "in the hope that he can pick up a precinct or two or a ward or two." In the most caustic gibe of all, he said of Nixon: "He never did really recognize and realize what was going on when he had an official position in the Government. You remember what President Eisenhower said: that if you would give him a week...