Word: campaigns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...village polling place. Rockefeller bought the place some time ago to save it from foreclosure, then let the firemen have it. "How do you feel?" somebody asked. "Great!" said the Rock, 50, and he looked it-chunky, electric, tired but tireless. Way behind entrenched Democrat Averell Harriman at campaign's outset, he was now rated 9 to 5 favorite. "I've done the best I could," said Rockefeller. "Now it's up to the public, the way it should...
...Dwight Eisenhower wound up three weeks and 6,860 miles of campaigning by plane and train last week, one sobering prospect appeared to lie uppermost in his mind. For other Republicans there would be more prop-stops and politicking in the years to come. But for him, 1958 marked the last campaign in which his own position was at stake, in which his own concerns could be affected. Propelled by that thought, the President dwelled often and with great earnestness on his remaining two years in the White House, on the legacy of achievement he hoped that those two years...
...before a sparse crowd of 3,500, hardly half filling Baltimore's cavernous Fifth Regiment Armory to hear his final campaign speech that the President spelled out his two-year hopes in detail. Promised he solemnly: "Looking ahead, we will...
...dripping plane stepped Vice President Richard Nixon, his wife and daughters, "Tricia," 12, and Julie, 10. Pat Nixon explained why the girls were there: "We figure this is an educational trip. They've been studying about Alaska." The Vice President was there for another reason. With the campaign for this week's elections on its last legs, he was already working on the next major U.S. election: Alaska's first election of a Governor, two Senators and a Congressman...
Well Booked. Nixon's trip to Alaska topped a tough and exhausting U.S. campaign effort. For five weeks Nixon had been on the road, working and speaking for Republican candidates. Last week his tour took him to Fort Dodge, Iowa, where he spoke to 18,000, thence to Wichita, Kans., Billings, Mont. and Everett, Wash. Between speeches he found time to chat about everything from the future of Democratic Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy ("He has done much for his party. I don't think his religion [Roman Catholic] will affect his national aspirations") to his preference for sports...