Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marilyn Monroe (May 14, 1956). This week. 40 years after the 19th Amendment gave the vote to women, TIME'S cover deals with the broad subject of women in politics, and it embraces two hard-at-work women politicians, Maine's Republican U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith and her Democratic opponent, Lucia Cormier...
...Nixon had been working behind the scenes to make sure that Kennedy did not get the needed Republican votes. On Senate social wel fare measures, liberal Republicans such as New York's Jacob Javits and Kenneth Keating, New Jersey's Clifford Case and Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, some times vote with liberal Democrats against the Senate's conservative coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats. To possible line-crossers, Nixon forces argued: G.O.P. votes for the Kennedy proposal would help Kennedy in November and therefore hurt Nixon...
Without Catcalls. The two candidates offer the Down East voters a remarkable choice. As the senior Senator from Maine. Margaret Chase Smith, 62, is the U.S.'s ranking female office holder. A cool, silver-haired, sometimes tart-tongued Republican, she has won the esteem of her colleagues and the nation for her diligence, independence and courage. In 23 years on Capitol Hill, as her late husband's secretary, as his successor in the House of Representatives, and as the second woman ever elected to the Senate, Maggie Smith has served her sex, her state and the U.S. with...
Shave & a Haircut. When Margaret Madeline Chase was born, the cause of woman suffrage was still far from realization, and the notion of a woman serving in the U.S. Senate seemed as remote as the moon. Maggie was the eldest of six children of George and Carrie Chase, a working-class couple in Skowhegan, the picturesque mill town on the Kennebec. George operated a one-chair barbershop with a gilt-framed mirror and a shelf of personal shaving mugs for his regular customers. The family lived next door in a maple-shaded, five-room frame house, and as a small...
...Lovely Ambition, Chase...