Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas, Tennessee and Virginia would return to the fold, Ike seemed headed for new triumphs in all those states. He led in Kentucky. As returns trickled in from the Midwest, scattered islands of resistance developed. In Michigan, thanks to Democratic Governor Mennen Williams' solid lead over G.O.P. Candidate Albert E. Cobo, Stevenson was ahead in heavily unionized Dearborn and Detroit. In scattered upstate precincts of Michigan and Wisconsin, resentful farmers were whittling down the G.O.P.'s 1952 margin. Elsewhere Democratic bastions were toppling. Pennsylvania's Democratic Lackawanna County gave Ike an early edge. For the first time...
...snatched away from the Democrats the only one of Connecticut's six House seats that remained in Democratic hands after 1954. (In the heavily Italian Third District, which centers on New Haven, Democrat Robert Giaimo waited only 47 minutes after the polls had closed before conceding that Republican Albert Cretella had won a third term...
...Michigan's bow-tied. New-Dealing Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams won a fifth term after a seemingly easygoing-hut decidedly breathless-campaign against his toughest competition ever: Detroit's capable Republican Mayor Albert E. Cobo, 63. Soapy benefited mightily from Michigan's split-ticket voters was even strong upstate, far from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. machines in the big cities...
...Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Hungarian-born Nobel Prize winner, will also be present at the rally. Szent-Gyorgi relayed an appeal on Sunday to American university students from his former colleagues at the University of Szeged, who asked for aid for Hungarian students. The Student Council unanimously lent support to the Hungarian students on Monday night in response to Szent-Gyorgi's plea...
...Lowell-Eliot game's single tally was made by Downey Green, right wing, on a pass from Albert Lanb, left inside. Lowell House, up until two days ago, was in a tie for third place. Yesterday's win was their second consecutive victory. The Crimson forwards, however, fell through on many scoring chances...