Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long years in politics, Committee Member Ed Johnson has been called many things. But when he heard of McCarthy's statement, Colorado's tough, burly Johnson gruffed: "This is the first time I've ever been called a handmaiden...
...Colorado's brainy Republican Senator Eugene Millikin sat, hands clasped limply, looking rather glum, and listened to testimony before the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee in Washington. His bald pate was partly mantled by a neatly folded handkerchief, which Millikin did not bother to explain. But two days later, he landed in a hospital with a bad head cold...
Adjusting to Center. His point, while not the only or the most important lesson of the 1954 election, was easy to document. What happened in Colorado was a striking, one-state capsule: the voters there chose a Republican U.S. Senator to replace a Democrat, a Democratic governor to replace a Republican, a Democratic lieutenant governor, a Republican attorney general, and re-elected two Democrats and two Republicans to the House of Representatives...
...does not stand high in national renown. Two, South Carolina's J. Strom Thurmond and North Carolina's W. (for William) Kerr Scott, 58, have been governors of their states. Of the seven new Republican Senators, all but one are or have been Congressmen. The one: Colorado's Gordon Allott, 47, whose light, as lieutenant governor, has been hidden under the bushel-basket showmanship and popularity of retiring Governor Dan Thornton. Allott, a liberal Republican and onetime Stassen-for-President booster, scored a minor upset by trouncing ex-Congressman John Carroll. Among the other senatorial newcomers...
...philosophy: "Protect the barn-the hell with the com fields." In last week's elections the Democratic Party did much better than the G.O.P in protecting the barn. The Democrats elected governors in seven states that had been controlled by the G.O.P.: Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Connecticut, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico (they had taken Maine two months before...