Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate, of Michigan's able, gentle, white-maned Homer Ferguson, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Republicans also lost Kentucky's John Cooper (who had twice been elected to the Senate for two-year terms, never for a full term) and Oregon's Guy Cordon. Iowa's Guy Gillette was the only casualty among Democratic Senators who had previously been elected to their seats...
Oregon has long been a Republican state, but it is less conservative than conservationist. For almost a year, Democrat Richard L. Neuberger, a state senator, free-lance writer and amateur conservationist, has been barnstorming around Oregon in a bid to unseat Republican Senator Guy Cordon. Hitting at what he called the "giveaway" of natural resources, Neuberger seemed to be campaigning less against Cordon than against Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, whose "partnership" power policy has been received with mounting hostility in McKay's native state. To balding Dick Neuberger, this issue, especially the fight over the nearby Idaho Hell...
Returning to the state from Washington in mid-campaign, colorless, conscientious Guy Cordon, 64, discovered he was in a horse race, rode off to the hustings to deliver attacks on Republican-turned-Independent-Democrat Wayne Morse, his Senate colleague who backed Neuberger. Although Cordon's managers, unused to hard bush-beating, never got his campaign into full gallop, it seemed unlikely that a Republican would lose in Oregon...
...last week smiling and marveling at the sights of New York harbor. At week's end, after a schedule of shopping, sightseeing and partying that would have staggered women half her age, she was still going strong. Everywhere she appeared, she managed to break through the stiff cordon of protocol with her smile, her poise, or her dazzling jewels. On every hand the comment was the same: "Isn't she lovely...
Republican candidate Cordon was leading his Democratic rival Neuberger, according to late returns, and seemed assured of victory...