Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first real signs will come from Connecticut, where the polls close at 7 p.m. and the count is usually fast. Professionals in both parties will listen for reports from the First Congressional District (Hartford), which went Democratic by 24,508 in 1948 and by 23,540 in 1952. What they will watch for is the size of the Democratic margin. If Republican Wallace Barnes is giving Democratic Representative Tom Dodd a close race, G.O.P. countenances will light up all over the U.S. But Democrats will smile if the first half of polling places to report give Dodd a lead...
Just as closely, but with a different focus, politicians will watch returns from Connecticut's Third District (New Haven). The Third is a switch district: in Republican 1946 it went Republican by 23,000; in Democratic '48 it slipped to the Democratic side by 1,139, then stayed there by 7,000 in 1950; in Republican 1952, it switched back to the Republican column by 11,610. Early reports from New Haven brought the first deep frowns at Adlai Stevenson's headquarters on the evening of Nov. 4, 1952. In 1954, Republican trend-watchers will be pleased...
...they are independent of the College, they are all guided, as Karl A. Hill, Assistant Dean of Tuck puts it, "by a full awareness of our responsibilities to 6Even the oarsmen at Hanover are "cnubbers" of a sort. Here they are snown carrying their shall and cars to the Connecticut River for a long dally pull. The woods and mountain surrounding Dartmouth lend themselves as well to the various activities of the outdoor groups...
Legislative committees have "thrown out the window nearly every safeguard which has been developed over the centuries by our courts," Law School Dean Erwin N. Griswold told the Connecticut Bar Association yesterday. Thus, "instead of decrying the Fifth Amendment we may well feel satisfaction at the protection the Amendment has given to individual standing alone," he said in the Hartford address...
...hustled out of Cambridge, and for a year the house stood empty. Then in 1640 Henry Dunster moved in, and the College got off to a second, less spectacular start. Over the next several years, little is known of the Goffe's. Perhaps they followed the Peyntree clan to Connecticut. But by 1651, the end house on Cow Yard Row went up for sale, and President Dunster added it to the growing College. It was renamed Goffe College, and turned into a dormitory to supplement the space available in Eaton House and a new building to the rear called...