Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full flush of victory, Ohio's U.S. Senator-elect George H. Bender bubbled off a letter to Richard Cull, Dayton News political reporter: "Dear Dick - This is just a note to thank you for all you did in my behalf during the senatorial campaign. I valued the endorsement of the News, and feel sure that you had something to do with my obtaining it. Indeed, I am grateful, and hope that I may continue to merit the approval of your paper and yourself. With fondest regards, I am cordially, George H. Bender...
There was just one thing wrong with Republican Bender's letter. The News endorsed Bender's opponent, Democratic Senator Thomas Burke...
Ohio: Republican George Harrison Bender, 58, was elected for the unexpired term of the late great Robert A. Taft by unseating Senator Tom Burke. Burke, a habitually effortless winner of Cleveland's mayoralty, found bushbeating all over Ohio a chore, while Bender sang and shouted his way through all 88 counties. Burke lost by 9,355 votes. Remembered as cheer leader in the 1948 and 1952 Taft-for-President campaigns, George Bender is boss of the Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) Republican machine and a veteran of 14 years in the House. Long an isolationist, he has hungrily swallowed President Eisenhower...
Under such a plan, candidates would take College Board exams and make applications starting in September. As a result, Bender said, "I think there is a real possibility of abandoning the achievement tests" as a criterion of admission. These have been used, evidently, primarily for placement in the past...
...Bender's comments drew similar statements from other Ivy League admissions directors, all concerned with the problem of students applying to as many as eight or nine schools for "insurance...