Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mitchell "leaked" the information that Minority Leader Hugh Scott promised to vote for Haynsworth if his vote made the difference; the "leak" was false, designed to force Scott into making it come true. Scott voted nay. Democrat Thomas Dodd was reportedly threatened with indictment over his alleged misuse of campaign funds; rumor had it that he was shown the indictment. But he too voted no. "During my more than seven years in the Senate," said conservative Idaho Republican Len Jordan, "few issues have generated more pressure on my office. Support of the President is urged as if it were...
Into Politics. With his financial base secure, Kennedy began to harbor political ambitions. He poured $25,000 into Roosevelt's 1932 campaign, raised another $100,000 from friends. F.D.R. rewarded him with public office-the chairmanship of the new Securities and Exchange Commission, appointment to the Maritime Commission, and the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (at the time an especially intriguing position for an Irish Catholic Kennedy). Though he ever after cherished the title of "Ambassador," the post did not work out well. He became fast friends with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
...Kennedy threw himself passionately into Jack's new political career. The founder spent some $50,000 for the young naval veteran's first congressional campaign. In 1952, when Jack was thinking of running for Governor of Massachusetts, Joe Kennedy persuaded him to try for Henry Cabot Lodge's Senate seat. "When you've beaten him," said Joe, "you've beaten the best. Why try for something less?" The Kennedy forces spent $500,000, dislodged the Senator by 70,000 votes...
...patriarch was virtually invisible during the 1960 campaign. But on Jan. 20, 1961, he sat reviewing the inaugural parade with translucent pride beside his son, the 35th President of the U.S. Then the brief realization of his dream began...
...higher authority, including the police if necessary) if radical students speak to painters while on the job. Robert Murphy, an assistant foreman, ordered CRIMSON reporter Reay Brown to leave a building where painters were working. It was a Harvard dorm, where a student is normally permitted. It is a campaign to intimidate the workers. (As union officials have admitted privately...