Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Young Eddie climbed the familiar asimilation ladder to professional status: City College, time out for World War II military service as an infantry sergeant in Europe, New York University Law School, a moderately successful private practice. He first got into politics during the 1952 Stevenson campaign. Koch served as a street speaker then, and again four years later, developing a style that is more haimish-homey-than sophisticated or rousing. A Yiddish lilt flavors his speech, and a phrasemaker...
...poor Russian Jewish immigrants, Arvey rang doorbells for ward politicians as a teen-ager while he worked his way through law school. He became the epitome of the back-room politician, and engineered many a political career, persuading an ex-assistant to the Secretary of the Navy named Adlai Stevenson to run for the governorship of Illinois and a University of Chicago professor, Paul Douglas, to try for the U.S. Senate...
...back in 1948 near the town of Alice, Texas, as the votes were being counted. Lyndon was there pleading for 200 more votes, according to Salas, and George Parr ordered them faked and stuffed into ballot box No. 13. Johnson triumphed in that primary election over former Governor Coke Stevenson. The Salas narrative suggested strongly that the protests were smothered because the fix was put in all the way up through Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and President Harry Truman...
Horace Busby, who was Johnson's press secretary then, remembered that the Stevenson folks rushed out and found Judge T. Whitfield ("Tiddlywinks") Davidson at a fishing hole and got him to issue an order holding up certification of the primary winner. Lyndon's forces went on up to Justice Black, who did not like Johnson but overruled Tiddlywinks' order just the same...
...against porn, and some 160,000 people signed a petition complaining against the sex merchants. Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy Stevenson, puts on the show at local schools and community meetings -and then asks for cleanup suggestions. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley has belatedly appointed a task force of people from seven city and state agencies to investigate Hollywood's problems...