Word: calling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...business-activities tax, under which "the manufacturer is taxed on his rate of sales whether he makes a profit or not." Fact: this tax was written by lobbyists for Ford and General Motors and passed over the violent objections of the Democrats. G.O.P. legislators were forced to call the lobbyists onto the floor of the house-in public session-to explain to Republicans the bill they passed a few moments later...
...President's first stop of the week was carefully calculated to woo a political minority with whom Dick Nixon so far strikes few responsive chords: the big Mexican-American communities of Texas and California. At Del Rio, Texas, the President crossed the Rio Grande to pay a farewell call on his good friend, Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos. Despite a steady drizzle, thousands jammed the plaza of Ciudad Acuña to hear Eisenhower proclaim the indestructible friendship of the two neighbors...
...Senator draws applause with an appeal "to help us those this country forward again." Its choice of adjectives--"strong," "vital," "energetic," "vigorous"--would have delighted Theodore Roose veldt. The Rough Rider has reappeared, pale and wan, as the new frontier man. His bugle blast has faded into an earnest call for "a society with purpose, a society with strength...
...Communist China (no admittance to the U.N. until the Chinese display their love of peace), later justified her political affiliation by observing that "Meyer may be a great man, but certainly he's ahead of his time. I sincerely believe that a man is chosen for his time--call it mystical if you will--and therefore I believe that Stafford should and will win." She turned to a discussion of the "emotionally committed and intellectually uninformed": "I would hate to see a country run only by college graduates; think of what would happen. There is some sort of magic about...
Will Meyer be re-elected? In 1951 won on a fluke, running against a whom even Republican Party regular call "an idiot." In 1960, the campaign much together; Stafford is a slick, read candidate whose words may what the people of Vermont want hear. To win the state, Meyer the Democrats must attract at least per cent of the Republican vote, before counting on most of the Democratic Independents. His chances are less and even...