Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 S. Walter Stauffer, went down to defeat...
...Colorado: By a 2-to-1 majority, Democratic Incumbent Stephen L. R. McNichols won reelection, dragged all but one of the state party slate along with...
...short years ago the docile Navajo Indians grubbed about in their 25,000-sq.-mi. desert reservation at the four corners where Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico meet. Disease-ridden, undernourished, ignorant, they lived in ramshackle hogans and crumbling shacks, contemplating a future as bleak as their past was romantic. Then, in 1956, big-time oil drillers on Navajo land hit the jackpot, and the dollars began gushing in. By last week, their numbers grown to 85,000 (v. 15,000 in 1868), their treasury to $60 million, their ancient weapons supplanted by grosses of ballpoint pens, lawyers, bookkeepers...
Ohio voters decisively voted "no" by a 2-1 majority on the referendum proposal. The same outcome was indicated by fragmentary returns from California, Colorado, and Washington...
Labor: Right-to-work proposals, on the ballot in California, Washington, Idaho, Kansas, Ohio and Colorado, set off the greatest Big-Labor registration drive in history. It was generally assumed that labor's get-out-the-vote efforts could only help Democrats. But by last week a good many labor leaders were not quite so sure. Right to work itself seemed to be holding its own in almost every state where it was a direct issue. And there was a real possibility that some of the voters urged to the polls by labor might themselves vote to curb labor...