Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...value of $47). But the company failed to strengthen its competitive position, was hard-hit by the slump in farm income, saw its earnings drop from $66 million in 1956 to about $57 million in the fiscal year ending Nov. 1, its stock fall to $10 a share. Tall, Arizona-born Russ Duncan is considered strong on sales, will try to overcome the poor sales and service system that has caused most of Minneapolis-Moline's troubles. Says Lannan, who submitted Duncan to psychological tests before hiring him: "This is a 363-day-a-year man. He takes...
...right and left wing of the farm bloc. He was recommended for the job by some very important Republicans: the late Senator Taft, Thomas Dewey and Milton Eisenhower. His appointment was also very advantageous to the Republican Party in the West. The Mormons are heavily concentrated in Utah, Arizona, Idaho, and Southern California and in most other Western states they form a minority significant enough to swing many elections. The political wisdom of the Republican move was borne out in the 1956 campaign when the Mormon areas of the West voted more heavily for Eisenhower than in 1952, in contrast...
Also Kenneth McIntosh of Kirkland House and New York City; James A. Matisoff of Eliot House and Malden, Massachusetts; Calvin C. Moore of Kirkland House and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Michael P. Rogin of Leverett House and Flushing, New York; Richard L. Roth of Eliot House and Tucson, Arizona; David Savitz of Adams House and New York City, and Lynn J. Taylor of Dunster House and Cuyuhaga Falls, Ohio...
...Four of these Republican incumbents are retiring, while all of the Democrats plan to run for reelection. Five of these are from the South and the other six--Kennedy, Symington, Mansfield, Chavez, Pastore, and Jackson--seem reasonably sure of reelection. Democrats will probably unseat a few Republican incumbents;--in Arizona, for instance, Governor Ernest MacFarland will likely rid the senate of Barry Gold-water...
From California's Republican Governor Goodwin Jess Knight at an Arizona vacation spot last week came the nod to go ahead on the political treaty of the year: Goodie agreed to travel to Washington this week, receive the blessings of the White House, and announce that "for the good of the Republican Party" he would run for the U.S. Senate next year, leaving his governor's chair open for Senator William Fife Knowland...