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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three-Termer Dewey's bonged loudest. But chiming in second place and tolling louder with each sample was Nelson Rockefeller. Realist Morehouse tore up his list, began to pump for Rockefeller. Said he to a gathering of county leaders: "Either you guys support me while I pick the best candidate or you will get yourselves some chowderhead and get this election all messed...
...Kansas Republicans cannot knock out Democratic Governor George Docking next month, this traditionally Republican prairie bastion may be in for a long Democratic siege. In Parsons Publisher Clyde Martin Reed Jr., 44, the G.O.P. has its best chance to do it. Reed bears an illustrious Republican name: his father was Kansas Governor (1929-31) and longtime (1939-49) U.S. Senator. Well-known and liked, Clyde Reed Jr. has already restored party morale by the rude primary pasting he handed ex-Governor Fred Hall last spring, the same Fred Hall who went down-rejected by major party leaders-in the primary...
...white and blue bus, the Republicans' political neophyte, retired Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur Toy McGonigle, 52, was doing his resolute best last week to retrieve the seat in Harrisburg that his party lost four years ago. The ride is uphill all the way. The Democratic candidate is Pittsburgh's four-term Mayor David Leo Lawrence, 69, one of the savviest and deftest political bosses in a state loaded with them. With 55 years in professional politics, and with Pittsburgh's gleaming new skyscrapers and superhighways as personal monuments, Dave Lawrence has a statewide reputation, strong support in Philadelphia...
...cropland worth some $6,000,000, accounts for 55% of Alaska's salable agriculture (1957 share: $1,854,000 in dairying, potatoes, berries, green vegetables). For a total outlay of about $5,400,000, the Matanuska experiment, says Anchorage Times Publisher Bob Atwood, is "one of the best investments Uncle Sam ever made...
Doing his best to keep a stiff upper lip, Press Chief Felix von Eckardt reassuringly announced that Adenauer himself would probably agree to testify on the matter-provided his Cabinet gave its consent. In case the Cabinet didn't, Adenauer's Socialist opponents were preparing a batch of questions to throw at der Alte in the Bundestag. Among them: Was it true that Adenauer's daughter, Frau Lotte Multhaupt, had also enjoyed the use of a "borrowed...