Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the expected was coming unexpectedly fast. The Hartford Courant declared at 7:40 p.m. that Ike had swept Connecticut. Eisenhower carried Bridgeport (pop. 159,000) by three votes-the first time since 1924 that a Republican candidate had carried this industrial city. At 8 o'clock. Republican National Chairman Arthur Summerfield looked at the results, said it might be a landslide for Ike. Less than 5% of the total vote was in by then, but almost every indicator was beginning to point...
...Republican landslide in Connecticut and Ike's breakthrough in the South were confirmed. By the time a third of Connecticut's votes were in, Ike had jumped into a lead of 240,000 to 217,000; at the two-thirds mark Ike was piling up a 57% majority (v. Tom Dewey's bare 50% in 1948). From there on, the Republican Connecticut sweep was swift and devastating. At 9:30, Democratic Senator Bill Benton conceded the victory of Republican William Purtell and gloomily predicted a nationwide victory for Ike. Minutes later. Democrat A. A. Ribicoff conceded...
...Connecticut, Republicans held one seat and picked up another. Recently appointed Senator William A. Purtell, a Hartford manufacturer, ran so far ahead of Senator William Benton, a onetime adman, that Benton conceded three hours after the polls closed. In the race for the second Senate seat (a four-year term to replace the late Brien McMahon), Prescott Bush, member of the same Wall Street brokerage firm as Averell Harriman, beat Representative Abraham Ribicoff, the best Democratic vote-getter in the state...
...clients were complaining, and the agency had lost three big accounts. Moreover, the defendants charged that Jones paid $400 a month to two of his sisters for "premium ideas" which were seldom used by the agency, and $8,000 a year to a brother, Alfred Jones, who ran a Connecticut chicken farm. In his own testimony, Jones admitted that he was a heavy drinker, but insisted that the chicken farm came in handy for entertaining clients...
...aggressiveness, the varsity soccer team's old bugaboo, caught up with Bruce Munro's booters again this weekend, and they dropped their fifth game of the year to an inferior Princeton outfit, 2 to 1, at Princeton. The Crimson travels to Storrs tomorrow to take on the University of Connecticut...