Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...vital seat in their drive to win control of the Senate in 1970. Robert Taft Jr., 53, son of the late Senator and scion of the wealthy Cincinnati family, was to have run for Governor, with Incumbent Governor James Rhodes, 60, going for the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Stephen Young, 81. Instead, the two Republicans are locked in combat for the Senate nomination, with the only real campaign issue being Rhodes' integrity...
...fewer than 175 members and perhaps as many as 230. Thus, the chief roadblock for the anti-Douglas forces is getting the issue through a committee and then to a vote before the full House. The Judiciary Committee considers formal resolutions of impeachment, but it is headed by liberal Democrat Emanuel Celler, who is expected to favor Douglas. Consequently Ford, seeking a more receptive forum, proposed a step that would be considered by the House Rules Committee under conservative Southern Democrat William Colmer. Last week Ford got 52 Republicans and 53 Democrats to sign a resolution calling for the creation...
...pack a .25 Colt automatic in his billowing pants and sometimes mount a special night watch with a Winchester .30-.30. But he still prefers to do battle with the same weapon that provoked the harassment-the weekly Tennessee newspaper he took over in 1967, the Monroe County Democrat (circ...
...Democrat's hammerings at local ills have earned Hicks national honor. Last year, at the annual conference of weekly-newspaper editors, he won two awards for courageous leadership. But in Monroe County, birthplace of Estes Kefauver and a haven for bootleggers, Hicks is no hero. Even those who support him in some of his crusades are apt to turn against him when they discover he plays favorites with no one. "It's tough to write about an old friend who's on the board of deacons at church with you," says Presbyterian Hicks. "But you have...
Hicks, with some financial backing from three partners, bought the Democrat three years ago for $60,000. Within a year, his stories on apparent corruption in the county roads department had led to the indictment of the supervisor for embezzlement. On the first day of the trial (which ended in a hung jury and has yet to be reheard), Hicks was brutally beaten in front of his office by two teenagers, one a preacher's son. According to an informant, both admitted having received $30 and a gallon of moonshine to do the job. At their trial the prosecutor...