Word: warren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson and against Kennedy through his West Virginia mountains last week. "For two years I've been talking, Lyndon up out in my state," says Nevada's Alan Bible. "He'd be a honey of a President," glows Wyoming's Gale McGee. Washington's Warren Magnuson furloughed his able administrative assistant, Irvin Hoff, for a brief forward observer's mission through the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast states to seek out the delegates and discover the arcane pockets of potential Johnson strength. Nor are the Johnson enthusiasts restricted to the Senate...
...campaign was fought out against a background of widespread public contentment with U.S. history's most remarkable stretch of prosperity-prosperity for which the Republicans doggedly claimed credit. From 1921 to the end of 1928, under Republican Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, real per capita national income had climbed by a heady 30%.*In June 1928 the Republican Convention in Kansas City chose a nominee who seemed superbly equipped to carry on the Republican prosperity: Secretary of Commerce Herbert Clark Hoover, 53, a self-made, wealthy, Iowa-born engineer who was the most admired member of Coolidge...
...curtain went up last week on Poet Ronald Duncan's play, three comfortable chaps were reading newspapers in a club in Hell. One by one they revealed their faces: Shaw, Wilde, Byron. Happy shades, they play poker for their professional reputations ("I'll wager Mrs. Warren's Profession"-"I'll raise you Childe Harolde") and tolerate Satan, dressed as a clergyman, as he steals their jokes...
...such suggestions. "I absolutely, under no circumstances whatsoever, would be a candidate for the vice-presidency," he said before leaving on a Venezuela vacation. "Nor would I accept a draft for the same position." Rockefeller's rejection was not taken as irrevocable. After all, Dick Nixon recalled, Earl Warren had been just as emphatic in his refusal in early 1948, but ran as Dewey's Vice President. Nixon would make no overtures to Rocky for the present, but until convention time he was not rocking the dream boat, either...
Last week the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Abel's conviction, but in a sharply split (5-4) decision. The four dissenting justices (William Brennan, Hugo Black, William Douglas, Chief Justice Earl Warren) agreed with Abel's court-appointed lawyer that the FBI had no right to use for criminal prosecution the evidence that was seized in the course of Immigration's "administrative" arrest (one not ordered by a court warrant). In his dissent. Justice Brennan charged violation of the spy's Fourth Amendment protections from "unreasonable searches and seizures." But the court majority reviewed each step...