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...race has heated up, the issue of race itself has become an ugly part of the campaign. Over the last few weeks, Republicans have aired three questionable ads against Ford, the latest so blatant that Corker condemned it and asked WHIN radio in Gallatin, Tennessee, to stop airing it. In the first 24 seconds, the one-minute ad attacking Ford and his father, and paid for by Tennesseans for Truth, uses the word "black" six times and accuses Ford of favoring African-American issues above others. "His daddy handed him his seat in Congress and his seat in the Congressional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '06: The G.O.P. Gets Nervous in Tennessee | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

Kennedy takes a sizeable advantage into the primary with Monday's endorsement by all of the Eighth Congressional District's state representatives, including House Majority Leader Charles Flaherty of Cambridge and House Assistant Majority Whin Mary Jane Gibson of Belmont...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, WITH WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Joe Kennedy Starts Re-Election Bid, Receives District Reps' Endorsements | 5/11/1988 | See Source »

...they are written for the true believer, for they admit of no possible party flaw. If there are national problems, those are the fault of the other party, which is castigated at length. As Finley Peter Dunne's fictional commentator Mr. Dooley noted of a practiced platform writer, "Whin he can denounce an 'deplore no longer, he views with alarm an' declares with indignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Marketable Baskets of Issues | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...Dunne missed few opportunities. The U.S. had developed imperial pretensions. There were "robber barons" and muckrakers, Prohibitionists and faith healers. Mr. Dooley matched wits with the mighty, and he usually put them down. One of the mightiest was Theodore Roosevelt, whose name Mr. Dooley always managed to mispronounce. "Whin Thaydore Rosenfelt kisses a baby," Mr. Dooley told his pal Hinissy, "thousands iv mothers in all corners of th' land hear th' report an' th' baby knows its been kissed an' bears th' hon'rable scar through life. Twinty years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Montaigne with a Brogue | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

...other people. He takes it and puts it where it won' hurt thim an' they won't spoil it. He's a kind iv society f r th' previntion iv croolty to money." Mr. Dooley deplored the jingoism of the Spanish-American War: "Whin we plant what Hogan calls th' starry banner iv freedom in th' Philippines an' give th' sacred blessin' of liberty to th' poor, downtrodden people iv thim unfortunate aisles-dam thim-we'll larn thim a lesson. We can't give ye anny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Montaigne with a Brogue | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

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