Word: speaker
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...Massachusetts, longtime Republican Leader (and former Speaker) Joe Martin, 76, carried his 14th District after running behind Democrat Edward F. Doolan for most of election night...
...Missouri, Representative Charlie Brown, who managed Stu Symington's unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, had no better luck with his own campaign for reelection. The winner: Republican Durward G. Hall, a handsome, conservative surgeon who. in the Ozark phrase, is a "gravel bar speaker...
Iowa. Norman Arthur Erbe, 41, is, by local reckoning, "a good old Iowa stubborn conservative." As state attorney general he has become well known as a corn-belt Comstock through his war against pornographic magazines. A massive (6 ft. 1 in., 215 Ibs.) lawyer and an impressive speaker, Republican Erbe is the son of a Lutheran minister, a war hero (D.F.C., 35 combat missions over Europe as a B-17 pilot). He advocates a cut in property taxes, more state aid to schools (to be paid for out of the huge surplus), revival of the state highway program...
...prosperous Ocala lawyer who was twice voted the state's most valuable man by Florida's Junior Chamber of Commerce, was judged by reporters to be the state's best legislator during his five terms in the house of representatives (his fourth, as speaker). Prim and bookish, Bryant is a Harvard Law School graduate, won both this year's run-off primary and the election with a surefire (in the redneck counties where he ran best) campaign pledge: No integration in Florida schools...
Wisconsin. One of the disappointed hopefuls in the vice-presidential bingo game at the Democratic Convention, Governor Gaylord Anton Nelson, 44, may still look forward to a political future beyond the shores of Lake Michigan. A smooth public speaker (and a smoother raconteur in informal moments), the darling of organized labor and an unabashed liberal, he brought a program of sweeping social reforms and a crew-cut crew of intellectuals to Madison in 1958, will give Wisconsin a second chorus of the same music in his second term...