Word: campaigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pacific when Democrats got the news of a stunning party sweep in Connecticut. Then came word that Vermont had sent its first Democrat to Congress in 106 years. The Democratic bandwagon came to a screeching halt in New York, where Republican Nelson Rockefeller, after a remarkable personal campaign, carried the G.O.P. ticket to a vital win. But the Democrats regained their momentum moving westward, and climaxed their victory with the overwhelming defeat of Republican William Knowland for Governor in California...
Notable Failures. Admitting defeat within four hours after the Eastern polling places had closed, Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn grimly promised that the campaign for the 1960 elections would "begin on November 5, 1958." From the Republican standpoint, it would have to. The 1958 elections proved that party organization work is a fulltime job, that last-minute campaign efforts are not enough. President Eisenhower, entering the campaign in its last weeks, notably failed-as he had failed in 1954-to reverse the Democratic trends in California, West Virginia, Kansas, Iowa and Colorado (and Ike's own Pennsylvania Congressman, Republican...
Arizona: Trailing in the pollsters' books only a few weeks ago, Republican Incumbent Barry Goldwater, 49, closed the gap with a flurry of TV talks, trimmed outgoing Governor Ernest McFarland after a bare-knuckle campaign that had the rancor of a personal feud. By beating McFarland, despite the Democratic trend, by winning in the teeth of Big Labor's threat to get him, unabashedly conservative Barry Goldwater emerged as Capitol Hill's No. 1 spokesman of the Republican right wing...
With the announcement of the Kampus Kutie Kontest, the Harvard-Radcliffe relationship has at last reached fulfillment. The campaign for union has been slow in maturing but each year some barricades have fallen. After a subtle start in the lecture hall, it soon spread to laboratories, tutorials and the stacks of Widener. From the academic it moved to the social and extracurricular, and just recently many undergraduate organizations have given...
...interest tonight will focus on gubernatorial races in the nation's two most populous states. In New York's battle of the millionaires, Governor W. Averell Harriman is fighting for his political life against personable, popular Nelson A. Rockefeller. Harriman was the overwhelming favorite when the campaign began, but his Republican opponent has made substantial gains in recent weeks and now appears to hold a slight edge...