Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gripped in this private feud, both Republicans trailed their Democratic opponents by a country mile. California polls showed Knowland running behind Democrat Pat Brown (TIME, Sept. 15) for Governor 38% to 62%. Similarly, Goodie Knight lagged in Engle's rear, 41% to 59%. Gleefully watching the Knight-Knowland act, Democrats crowed over the G.O.P. "right-to-lose campaign...
...congressional seats safely belongs to Republican E. Y. Berry, 56. In the other, Republican Governor Joe Foss is running against Incumbent Democratic Representative George McGovern, first Democrat to hold a South Dakota congressional seat in 18 years. The South Dakota vote is strictly agricultural: McGovern started ahead because Foss had lost friends by raising taxes; then rains brought a farm boom and Foss moved up; then an August drought came to McGovern's help. Result: McGovern appears to have a handy lead, rapping Ezra Benson while Republican Foss tries to avoid taking a stand one way or another...
Because he bolted two years ago to support Dwight Eisenhower, Harlem's seven term Negro Congressman Adam Clayton Powell was read out of the Democratic Party and replaced on Tammany Hall's primary slate by a loyal Democrat. But last week Powell was invited back along a flower-strewn path with the special title of "associate" manager of Governor Averell Harriman's re-election campaign. Reason: Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio realized that he needed Powell more than Powell needed Tammany. Running in the primary as an independent, Powell trampled Party Choice Earl Brown...
...supported Gravel for his "integrity, candor and intelligence," snapped that the National Committee, which rules on its own membership, will keep Gravel in office until the 1960 convention. Louisiana's U.S. Senator Russell Long, in turn, noted pointedly that the State Committee decides who shall be called a Democrat on the ballot-a strong suggestion that Louisiana might turn thumbs down on the presidential and vice presidential candidates if the rebels do not get their...
...Jackson, Miss. House Speaker Sam Rayburn, a Texas Democrat who had spent years trying to make the Democratic tent big enough for both North and South, refused to discuss segregation ("I don't think it would be helpful to talk about it"), attempted to turn the anger of 800 fund-raising Democrats against Republicans. The Mississippians refused to be distracted, gave their biggest applause to the cry of State Chairman Bidwell Adams: "I want to tell the honorable Speaker and everyone else that I am not a milk-chocolate Democrat. I am an old-line Democrat...