Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...swung Republican, Connecticut has lodged so firmly in the Democratic column over the past eight years that the G.O.P. no longer controls a single congressional or statewide administrative office. This year for a change, with an out-of-the-blue candidate who can seriously challenge Governor John Dempsey, Republicans are confident that the pendulum will come back their...
...Footsie." The G.O.P.'s fresh face belongs to Dempsey's good friend and neighbor E. (for Edmund) Clayton Gengras, 57, chairman of the Security-Connecticut Group and of the Connecticut Co., which runs urban bus lines. A high school dropout, Gengras is a self-made millionaire and self-starting candidate whose first bid for public office took both rank-and-file Republicans and Democrats by surprise. Also surprising was the unanimity mustered at the party convention, which nominated him by acclamation. Though Nutmeg State Republicans have been notorious for factional feuding in recent years, State Republican Chairman...
...Social Governor." Though the state has a heavily Roman Catholic electorate (50%), the Republican ticket was artfully assembled to appeal to just about every religious and ethnic group. Gen gras, like Dempsey, is a Catholic, and so are the Republican candidates for lieutenant governor and comptroller, John Gerardo and Tom Mayers. The nominee for attorney general is a Negro, William Graham, and the secretary of state's slot is filled by Mrs. Phyllis Shulman, a Jew. J. Tyler Patterson Jr., running for treasurer, is the only old-line Yankee. Though he contributed $5,000 to Dempsey...
...Nothing hampers the progress of civil aviation more than fear," says Jeremiah Dempsey, general manager of Ireland's Aer Lingus. The other side of the equation is that, as planes become safer, more people will become less fearful and will fly. Since 1962, the proportion of Americans who have been up in a plane has climbed from 33% to 38% . But as more people fly, the casualty toll will climb too-unless the one-in-a-million chance of accident can be cut still lower...
Clay was angered that the second Liston bout was so short. He wanted more time to humiliate the Bear, to show off his beautiful style. The cries of "Fix" also gave him second thoughts about how to best establish his supremacy among the likes of Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, and Joe Louis...