Word: benton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential race cannot be separated from the startlingly close senatorial contests. Expert Hartford observers are predicting that whichever presidential candidate takes the state will carry in either Purtell or Benton with him. In 1948 Dewey took the state with but 1,000 more than Truman and Wallace combined. This year the Progressive threat is negligible, and the state is basking in the sunny prosperity given to its factories by defense contracts. Unemployment is non-existent. Furthermore, Stevenson has an appeal to the state's comparatively-high number of college graduates that Truman lacked. It's going to be tight...
...last weeks of the campaign McCarthyism has become a vital issue in the Purtell-Benton race. For the past two years Benton has been trying to get McCarthy thrown out of the Senate for improper conduct. The Wisconsin senator has retaliated with a libel suit, and a battle-royal has been waged in the newspapers. Since October 15 McCarthy has twice repudiate one of the Association's most reactionary stands made while he was president--its opposition to the federally-subsidized school lunch program. visited Connecticut to lambast Benton in fiery speeches. Purtell, an Irish-Catholic, did not invite McCarthy...
...unionized, has enjoyed admirable labor relations. Purtell's big drawback in industrial Connecticut is the fact that in the years since 1947 he has been both vice-president and president of the Connecticut Association of Manufacturers, an organization which has consistently opposed welfare measures in the state. Bill Benton's speechwriters are working hard on the record of the CAM, and Purtell has been forced...
...Benton himself has been in the Senate since 1950, when he defeated Pres Bush by a minuscule 1,102 votes in a special election. Since then millionaire advertising man Benton has had an almost perfect voting record, so far as labor and the ADA are concerned. His handicaps are a reputation for insincerity and the same "bedroom citizen" tag which is troubling Bush...
Because the 1950 senatorial contest was decided by only 1,102 votes, splinter candidates Kellems and McLevy probably hold the balance of power in the Benton-Purtell race. Kellems, a manufacturer who has been waging a one-woman feud with an oblivious U.S. government, classes herself an Independent Republican and may attract some disgruntled Taftites. The Democrats are more worried about McLevy, however, than the regular Republicans are about Kellems. McLevy is not much of a Socialist, but he's an unbelievably strong party boss in his city of Bridgeport, where he has been mayor for more than ten years...