Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Neuberger's victory by a 2,462-vote eyelash over Republican Guy Cordon (with an able assist from Morse) marks a major political upset in the Northwest: the Republicans' ancient and iron grip on Oregon (once as overwhelming as the Democratic thralldom of the South) has been broken...
...again, by a vote of 4 to I. The one exception was Dean Morse, who argued that no dishonorable intent was involved. On Neuberger's final appeal, the faculty discipline committee upheld Morse, cleared Neuberger. The case was forgotten until last fall, when Circuit Judge Carl Wimberly, Senator Cordon's former law partner, charged that Neuberger had been expelled for cheating. Republicans and Democrats alike denounced the story, Neuberger got a lot of publicity, and Republican State Chairman Ed Boehnke announced that "That fool judge has just cost Guy the election...
...Neubergers were the best known Democrats in Oregon and Dick, impressed with his voter-strength and in flamed against the Administration's public-private power policy (TIME, Nov. 15, 1954), decided to run against Guy Cordon in the political arena of a state which had been almost continuously Republican since...
...votes, agreed. Thinking himself defeated, he went to bed. Next morning Neuberger and his wife, State Representative Maurine Neuberger, paced up and down their pink kitchen, where the telephone buzzed from time to time bringing them election returns. The first delayed returns from Multnomah County (Portland) halved Cordon's lead, but Candidate Neuberger sighed gloomily. "Not enough," he said, and gathered up some grocery bills on which to tabulate votes...
...tally: Neuberger 285,000, Cordon 283,000. But the first Democratic Senator elected from Oregon in 40 years ran 6,000 votes behind his wife in Multnomah County. Said Maurine dutifully: she will retire from politics to help her husband in Washington-two years from now, that is, when her term in the legislature...