Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone who still had doubts about the legendary efficiency of Richard Nixon's campaign organization, reports TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont, would lose them after glimpsing the operation at the Willard. Compared with the one-floor warren that passes for the Democratic National Committee and Hubert Humphrey's campaign headquarters across town, the Nixon show is a lesson in the power and effectiveness of supreme organization...
...grace but an enduring crusade to restore lost revolutionary rights. (The fact that the Supreme Court for years regarded income tax laws as unconstitutional seemed to support Beard's contentions.) "Beardism," in any case, provoked savage attacks. The Marion Star, an Ohio newspaper owned by President-to-be Warren G. Harding headlined: SCAVENGERS, HYENA-LIKE, DESECRATE THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD PATRIOTS WE REVERE. Ex-President William Howard Taft observed acidly that Beard would no doubt have preferred a Constitution drafted by "dead beats, demagogues and cranks who never had any money...
...William Warren, a Columbia Dean who had presented the plea for leniency, said that he would enter the same plea for the other 313 students...
...asking the judge to free the first group of students, Warren had said that Columbia was "a big family." "Like a family, we must survive our crises...and continue to live and function together as a unit," Warren said, adding, however, that Columbia could take necessary disciplinary steps itself...
...Warren also said that Columbia would make no plea for leniency for 600 other students arrested on charges more serious than trespassing...