Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewis Douglas, Arizona banker, the New Deal's first (1933) Director of the Budget, U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain under Truman and three-time Demo cratic Congressman, backed Eisenhower (as he did in 1952) for his unique international "stature and substance," but promised to work hard for the local Arizona Democratic ticket...
...this method conjured up doubts, there was another kind of arithmetic, based on the electoral votes of all the states that went heavily for Ike in 1952 but now have active Democratic governors, e.g., Edmund Muskie's Maine, Bob Meyner's New Jersey, Ernest McFarland's Arizona, and even (they told themselves) Frank Lausche's Ohio. And beyond all that lay the hopes of cracking the farm belt-the "Solid North" of the G.O.P...
...Arizona...
...immediate and powerful stimulation. Whiskey, brandy, rum or any spirituous liquor should be freely given, so as to produce intoxication, if possible." No prescription was ever more popular in the West. Yet its efficacy has never been checked by medical research. Last week famed Venomologist Herbert L. Stahnke of Arizona State College announced that the imposingly named Committee on Problems of Alcohol, Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, had given him $2,000 to find out. Stahnke quickly got several offers from volunteers to serve as human guinea pigs...
Stevenson "fire spotters" (including Adlai Stevenson III) fanned out among the other combustible delegations. Arizona started to burn; it was cooled after a perilously close call. Kansas seemed ready to go; the fire fighters won again. Even at midweek the faction-torn Maryland delegation began thinking about switching to Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington. Jim Finnegan got the word, made an emergency call. "Boys," said Finnegan, by that time on his third pack of Old Golds, "that's all right if it's the best you can do. You can come along later−just...