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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bare 50% in 1948). From there on, the Republican Connecticut sweep was swift and devastating. At 9:30, Democratic Senator Bill Benton conceded the victory of Republican William Purtell and gloomily predicted a nationwide victory for Ike. Minutes later. Democrat A. A. Ribicoff conceded to Republican Prescott Bush in Connecticut's other Senate race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Election Night | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...another. Recently appointed Senator William A. Purtell, a Hartford manufacturer, ran so far ahead of Senator William Benton, a onetime adman, that Benton conceded three hours after the polls closed. In the race for the second Senate seat (a four-year term to replace the late Brien McMahon), Prescott Bush, member of the same Wall Street brokerage firm as Averell Harriman, beat Representative Abraham Ribicoff, the best Democratic vote-getter in the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Make-Up of the 83rd | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...take both. Republican Senator William Purtell, who was appointed to fill the late Brien McMahon's seat until the election, is running against Democratic Senator William Benton. Purtell is ahead. For the remainder of McMahon's term (four years), Democratic Representative A. A. Ribicoff and Republican Prescott Bush are in a neck & neck race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: The Fight for the Senate | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

...student guest of the Kremlin, returned to Kenya to spread the Red gospel. K.A.U. (membership: 100,000) ostensibly seeks home rule for Kenya, but is more likely a screen for Communist and anti-Christian propaganda among Kenya's 5,000,000 blacks. In the hymnbooks used in 300 bush schools supervised by K.A.U., Jomo Kenyatta's name has been substituted for that of Jesus Christ. Charged as the "leading spirit" of the Mau Mau movement, Kenyatta was packed off to a "not very comfortable" billet in the North Kenya desert-miles & miles of sunbaked lava crumbling like broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Meow-Meows | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam, | Title: The Campaign | 11/1/1952 | See Source »

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