Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Thomas Martin, will win back the seat held by Democrat Merwin Coad, winner in 1956 by precisely 198 votes out of 129,052 cast. But Republicans are having rough sledding in at least three other districts. In the Second (Cedar Rapids-Dubuque) district, veteran Henry O. Talle, ranking Republican on the House Banking and Currency Committee, carried only 51.3% of the district in 1956 against Democrat Leonard Wolf, who has been campaigning ever since. In the Fifth (Des Moines) district, Republican Paul Cunningham won by only 51.1% in 1956, is slightly favored over Democrat Neal Smith, who is hurt...
Because he bolted two years ago to support Dwight Eisenhower, Harlem's seven term Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell was read out of the Democratic Party and replaced on Tammany Hall's primary slate by a loyal Democrat. But last week Powell was invited back along a flower-strewn path with the special title of "associate" manager of Governor Averell Harriman's re-election campaign. Reason: Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio realized that he needed Powell more than Powell needed Tammany. Running in the primary as an independent, Powell trampled Party Choice Earl Brown...
...Bidwell Adams: "I want to tell the honorable Speaker and everyone else that I am not a milk-chocolate Democrat. I am an old-line Democrat, who is not even about to drink the dregs left by Soapy Williams or any other liberal. I am tired of furnishing a back for them to practice their bullwhip lessons...
DULLES SCENTS BRINK VICTORY, proclaimed the Christian Science Monitor last week as the Secretary of State flew'back from a few days at his Duck Island retreat to a capital hoping against hope that Red China would make its seven-day ceasefire on Quemoy permanent. Dulles conferred with Under Secretary of State Christian Herter and Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs Walter Robertson, hit a quick consensus that the Communists had stopped shooting because their artillery blockade of Quemoy had failed, and they were unwilling or unable to step up the pressures in the teeth of U.S. and Chinese...
...Career. After three years of grueling work as a freshman in a Wall Street law firm, he headed back to Ohio. As a New York lawyer, he explains, "you work harder and harder to become more and more successful so that you can move further and further away from town and see less and less of your family." As a rising young Republican lawyer in Cincinnati (who still defends a first vote for Franklin Roosevelt), he dabbled in politics, got elected to two terms (1950-53) as a city councilman. Appointed by President Eisenhower in 1954 to the U.S. Court...