Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give you." Alcorn was delayed only by a frantic last-minute call from Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Payne, who insisted that, because both he and Adams had accepted Goldfine gifts, to impute dishonesty by firing Adams would surely beat him in his race for re-election against Democrat Edmund Muskie...
...Utah, Incumbent Republican Senator Arthur V. Watkins, 71, easily won renomination over a political nobody, but now faces double trouble. By starting early, indefatigably stumping the state from one end to the other, Salt Lake County Attorney Frank E. Moss, 47, won the Democratic nomination by an unexpectedly heavy vote (total Democratic vote was 5,000 greater than total Republican). And waiting in the wings until November is ex-Governor J. Bracken Lee. Diehard Republican Lee, running as an independent, is not expected to win -but might siphon off enough Republican votes to let Democrat Moss sneak through...
...Washington's seven congressional districts (six of them Republican), Democrats outpolled Republicans by more than 20%-in a state where Democrats historically do better in the general election than in the primary. Shiniest Republican statewide hopeful: Newcomer William B. Bantz, 40, burly, personable former U.S. district attorney from Spokane, his party's nominee to unhorse Democrat Senator Henry M. Jackson. Big Bill campaigned hard for regulation of labor unions ("My stand on labor bosses is damn popular"), polled 136,000 votes, about 100,000 more than anyone expected him to get, set starved Washington Republicans hollering, that Bill...
...Democrats, apparently riding the crest of the wave, headed for blind disaster on some still-distant shore? One Democrat who thinks so is Harvard Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., brain-truster and speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson through two campaigns. Modern Democratic bosses are deliberately ignoring a treasure of intellectual-liberal candidates in favor of "mediocre party hacks," Schlesinger writes in the New Republic. Case in point: Tammany's passing over of onetime Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter in New York to hand the U.S. Senate nomination to District Attorney Frank Hogan, who "has hardly voiced...
...into lawlessness by Governor Orval Faubus. "The people of Little Rock," he wrote a year ago, "will not allow a tiny, militant minority to take over Central High School and run it under mob rule." Gazette circulation dropped from 99,573 to 88,068, while the pro-Faubus Arkansas Democrat took up the slack. Ashmore refused to be bullied, and an attempted advertising boycott failed...