Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having missed many a chance to win votes for his party in three key states, the President headed for California, where his tour, he said, would become "outright political...
Right-to-work propositions are on the ballot in five states besides Ohio: California, Washington, Idaho, Colorado and Kansas. They have produced floods of new registrations; most of it is probably Democratic; in California, only one of each four of 457,000 new voters registered Republican. But angry questions at political rallies, letters to editors, earnest debate at many a saloon and street corner indicate that even union rank-and-filers-not to mention farmers and white-collar workers-are seriously disturbed over Big Labor's evident excesses...
Watch the Backlash. Even so, no Democrats-and precious few Republicans-have grabbed hold of the issue with the firmness of Ohio's O'Neill and Bricker. Notable exception: the nation's most stubborn right-to-work man, William Fife Knowland, California's Republican candidate for governor, who had set a horrible example by splitting his already-squabbling party asunder over the issue...
Died. Winona Fisher, 70, daughter of 98-year-old Primitivist Painter Anna Mary Robertson (Grandma) Moses; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, N.Y. Of Grandma Moses' ten children, two survive. Seven years ago, at 63, Winona returned from California to look after her aging mother...
Bell Telephone Science Series (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The University of Southern California's Professor Frank Baxter, whose TV fame rests largely on a pleasantly wind-blown approach to Shakespeare, turns popular scientist in Gateways to the Mind, which attempts to make sense of the human senses...