Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleveland. Italian-born Democrat Anthony J. Celebrezze, 49, campaigned on his good three-term record, turned back Republican Multimillionaire (chemicals) Tom Ireland, 63, by 78,000 votes. Mustached, swarthy, fiercely aggressive, Lawyer Celebrezze came up the hard way (railroad gangs, prizefighting), had to beat both Republican and Democratic candidates when he first ran for mayor in 1953, kept taxes down, pushed urban redevelopment, increased services. Opponent Ireland, a sometime author who was educated at Princeton, Boston and Harvard universities, was once a municipal judge, wears a derby pulled over his ears and high-laced shoes...
Columbus. Cocky, voluble Democrat Maynard E. ("Jack") Sensenbrenner, 57, campaigned for his fourth term in the typical give-'em-hell, revivalistic style that he calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching down the hand of comradeship and saying 'Come on up higher. You did a swell job down there on earth . . .' " By the time all the spizzerincta were spizzed out, Mayor Sensenbrenner was out of office. Winner, to everybody's surprise but his own, was lackluster Wallace Ralston...
...rang in a warm San Francisco welcome for Nikita Khrushchev (cabled Khrushchev: "Had I been a citizen of your beautiful city, I would undoubtedly have voted for you"), had the city in his pocket virtually from the beginning, even though registration is overwhelmingly Democratic. In his wild-swinging campaign, Opponent Wolden accused Christopher's administration of permitting San Francisco to become national headquarters of "organized sex deviates." The charge, which cosmopolitan San Francisco considered bad manners, queered Wolden with most of his fellow Democrats and all the city's newspapers. Christopher's big bipartisan victory...
...Democrats still owe $467,000 in 1956 campaign obligations. The national committee is living beyond its means at the rate of more than $86,000 so far this year, and Paul Butler has made no major move to reduce expenses. Neither has Philadelphia Multimillionaire (construction) Matt McCloskey, the party treasurer, who shares with Butler the responsibility and the blame for fund-raising and budgeting. The two men are no longer on speaking terms-and the party's indebtedness continues to spiral upward. The sleek party house organ, Democratic Digest, continues to pile up a $70,000-$80,000 annual...
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion went to bed early. Turning on the radio next morning at his desert cottage at Sde Boker, he heard the news at breakfast that he had won another election. Then his campaign manager helicoptered in from Tel Aviv to tell him he had won the biggest triumph of his political career...