Word: cameronism
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...candidate on the Democratic ticket, as some Southern states had done in 1948. Chiefly responsible for the loyalty pledge move were Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Harriman campaign manager, Michigan Senator Blair Moody. Michigan Governor Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, a group which North Carolina's old (82), formidable former Governor Cameron Morrison called "half-educated boys." Against them were such fierce old eagles as South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes and Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, who were politicians before Roosevelt & Co. could spell "caucus...
Speaking against the Moody resolution, North Carolina's onetime governor, onetime U.S. Senator Cameron Morrison said that he believed himself to be the oldest man in the convention, "83 in a few days, and a lifelong Democrat." He concluded: "My God, deliver me from such tyranny as this over the minds and the hearts of the Democrats of this country...
...Predecessors. Simon Cameron formed the first really strong Pennsylvania machine about 1850, and by 1860 he was in much the same position as John Fine is today. To get Abraham Lincoln the Republican nomination, Lincoln's lieutenants had to promise Cameron a Cabinet post. He was one of the worst Secretaries of War who ever bought a carload of defective rifles, but his power in Pennsylvania was unbroken until his death (at 90) in 1889. He passed his Senate seat on to his son, but his real power fell to Matt Quay...
...carry quite the same meaning as they do today. Throughout his political career, Pinchot's strongest ally was Joe Grundy, owner of a Bristol, Pa., textile plant, who founded the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Grundy was a new kind of political boss. To Cameron and Quay the money to be made in politics was an incidental increment of political power; to Penrose money was just a means to political ends. But Grundy & friends were primarily businessmen, interested in politics as an aid to business. To this day the Grundy "machine" is not a normal political organization with normal responses...
Died. The Right Rev. Cameron J. Davis, 78, retired bishop (1931-47) of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Western New York; of a heart ailment; in Buffalo...