Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amid the general fuss and clutter, two men, in a feud that was both personal and political, worked hardest to collar delegates. Handsome, fast-talking Lawyer J. Kenneth Bradley, out for the nomination for governor, was trying to regain the party control he had o«ce held as Connecticut Republicanism's boy wonder, only to be stripped of his state chairmanship six years ago. On the eighth floor reigned the man he sought to dethrone: big Harold Mitchell, the party head. Mitchell had chosen Lodge as his candidate...
Full of emotion, she took the floor, denounced this "humiliating" defeat of Connecticut's women, the whole convention system and the people who won with it. "Do you think that was the right thing to do?" she asked the convention. There were scattered yes's and no's. "Couldn't a pretense have been made," she asked again, "that a few of you wanted me?" Then she withdrew from the race...
Died. Harold E. Mitchell, 48, G.O.P. national committeeman, party head in Connecticut; of a heart attack; in West Hartford, Conn. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Cooper, in a string tie and Stetson, rides into town to resume his family's feud with Donald Crisp, the local tobacco tycoon and father of Patricia Neal. Teaming up with Jeff Corey, a Connecticut Yankee inventor of a newfangled cigarette-making machine, Cooper ruins Tycoon Crisp, marries his spirited daughter and displays his growing ruthlessness by flexing his jaw muscles and compressing his lip. Along the way are all the standard climaxes-street fights, a shooting, a suicide, fires, foreclosures and pointless lovers' quarrels. At the end, discovering that power corrupts and that none...
...tomorrow's four mile race up the Thames, Gregory C. Gates, six foot four senior from Scuffled, Connecticut, will be at stroke...