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Family Spokesman: George McGovern dead at age 90
WALTER R. MEARS,Associated PressSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George S. McGovern, a proud liberal who argued fervently against the Vietnam War as a senator from South Dakota and suffered one of the most crushing defeats in presidential election history against Richard Nixon in 1972,...Tags: U.S. Army, Hillary Clinton, Wars and Interventions, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon
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When Washington was really grim
WASHINGTON -- "When I first met Richard Nixon," Robert Bork says in the book he completed a few weeks before his death in December, "I could see in his expression the conviction that someone had blundered badly." With the dry wit that, together with his...Tags: Government, Justice System, Political Corruption, Lawyers, Richard Nixon
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NRA president to talk at Franklin County GOP dinner
waynesboro@herald-mail.comNational Rifle Association President David Keene is slated to speak about gun rights during a Franklin County (Pa.) Republican Committee dinner scheduled for April 3. Committee Chairman Dwight Weidman on Wednesday announced Keene will be the keynote...Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Government, Regional Authority, Civil Rights, San Francisco 49ers
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When it comes to political corruption, one Md. judge says: 'Enough'
Will Rogers once observed that a newspaper ad was worth about 40 editorials, which many of us in the opinion writing side of that equation suspect would be quite the bargain. Little else could explain the public's indifference to a topic that has launched...
Tags: Government, Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Lifestyle and Leisure, Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), Political Corruption
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The real reason Obama won
Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory is a good place to start for some perspective on the recent presidential election. Within its gray stone walls, the tumultuous 1912 Democratic National Convention played a major scene in the political drama that...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, 2012 Democratic National Convention, William Howard Taft, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Former SD Sen. and 1972 Presidential candidate George McGovern dies
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — George McGovern once joked that he had wanted to run for president in the worst way — and that he had done so. It was a campaign in 1972 dishonored by Watergate, a scandal that fully unfurled too late to knock...
Tags: U.S. Army, Hillary Clinton, Wars and Interventions, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon
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Author says VP debate could be meaningful
dbrock@amnews.comAdd David Brooks to the list of pundits who believe the Oct. 11 vice-presidential debate at Centre College will be good political theater starring two compelling candidates. The columnist and author thinks it might actually be meaningful as well. Brooks...Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, David Brooks, Joe Biden, Paul Ryan
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Mail Call - Sept. 12
“I want to congratulate South High on their win Friday night, and commend their coach ... for putting in his second string during the second half. What a great show of good conduct and wonderful sportsmanship, and best wishes for the season.”...Tags: Government, Barack Obama, Executive Branch, Politics, Republican Party
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Sizzlin' Summer Nights draws crowd to downtown Aberdeen
sfeldman@aberdeennews.comSaturday was the one day of the year in Aberdeen when a person could walk down Main Street, look at a Ford pickup built in 1934 parked between a 1966 Chrysler 300 and a 1984 Chevrolet Camaro Z28, and not stop to think twice about it. Crowds of people...Tags: Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Pontiac, Chevrolet, Mazda
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PASSINGS: Doris Singleton, Elinor Agnew, Bob Banfield, Patricia Bario
Doris Singleton
Actress worked with Lucille Ball
Doris Singleton, 92, an actress best known for playing Lucy's friend Caroline Appleby on the classic TV comedy "I Love Lucy," died Tuesday in Los Angeles of complications from cancer, according to her...Tags: Lucille Ball, The Dick Van Dyke Show (tv program), Entertainment, Cancer, Baltimore County
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Antique vegetable advertisements popular with collectors
Fresh vegetables were part of the diet of the Victorian household during the warm, growing months. But stored root vegetables and home canned food were used on snowy days. Advertisers knew that imaginary vegetables acting like humans were as popular a...Tags: Toy Industry, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Economy, Business and Finance, Sears Holdings Corp., Companies and Corporations
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Md. a two-party state for political corruption
In his recent commentary, "Too many Md. politicians have chalk on the shoes" (May 25), Douglas Schmidt gets points for originality for inventing a standard he can use to smear people who have committed no crime. However, he uses it mostly to smear...Tags: Republican Party, Ellicott City, Parties and Movements, Political Corruption, The Jockey Club Incorporated
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