Word: connecticuter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dewey: 29 states with 350 electoral votes (needed to win: 266). California (25), Colorado (6), Connecticut (8), Delaware (3), Idaho (4), Illinois (28), Indiana (13), Iowa (10), Kansas (8), Maine (5), Maryland (8), Massachusetts (16), Michigan (19), Nebraska (6), New Hampshire (4), New Jersey (16), New York (47), North Dakota (4), Ohio (25), Oregon (6), Pennsylvania (35), South Dakota (4), Tennessee (12), Utah (4), Vermont (3), Washington (8), West Virginia (8), Wisconsin (12), Wyoming...
...Connecticut. In a Republican year in a normally Republican state, a Republican governor should have little trouble getting reelected. The news from Connecticut was that Governor James C. Shannon, who succeeded to the office last March on the death of Governor James L. McConaughy, was getting a run for his money. The man who was doing it was ex-OPAdministrator Chester Bowles, who was crisscrossing the state, dropping in at the county fairs (sometimes joining in the softball games), and appearing three times a week on a radio program on which he invited voters to send him all their personal...
...sight of prize cakes, prize cattle and sullen hootchy-cootchy dancers. Millions of men were digging out red hats, boots and boxes of shells and exchanging speculative glances with suddenly excited bird dogs. Coon hunters were already going out at night, tin lanterns in hand, in Iowa and Connecticut. There would be other game soon-pheasants were fat, honkers were winging south in high Vs and deer were beginning their migration from high country...
...states which have no such prohibition: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Washington...
Michael St. A. Post, of Lowell House and New Milford, Connecticut, was chosen Sports Editor, while Anthony J. Sabelli of Brookline, is the new Photography Editor...