Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts' Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Sumner Whittier gladhand-ed his way around the state as a simon-pure Eisenhower supporter; he took a fearsome trouncing (141,000) from Democrat Foster Furcolo, who could point to a solid congressional record...
Clobbered Clowns. As they made their decisions, even voters in the most hidebound areas jumped traditional party lines in pursuit of their local or regional interests. Kansas Republicans, fed up with G.O.P. factionalism, named Democrat George Docking governor over Warren Shaw (who suffered the additional liability of charges that he had taken kickbacks on gasoline sales to the state). In Republican Iowa, voters resented G.O.P. Governor Leo Hoegh's move-fast, high-tax program (TIME, Oct. 22), and elected Democrat Herschel Loveless. In West Virginia, corruption charges against the outgoing Democratic state administration resulted in the election of Republican...
...week long the votes drifted in from the scattered precincts. By week's end it was clear that the U.S. had given President Dwight Eisenhower a record 34,750,000 votes, with a plurality of 9,300,000 (57.7%) over Democrat Adlai Stevenson, and an electoral total of 457 out of 531. (Total vote cast: 60,180,000, about one million less than 1952's alltime high.) The voters also gave Eisenhower a Democratic Congress, and at the state level slightly increased the number of Democratic governors...
...Democrats went into the 1956 elections with a 49 to 47 edge in the U.S. Senate. For a while last week it appeared they would increase that margin. But South Dakota's wispy G.O.P. Senator Francis Case, after trailing Democrat Ken Holum for hours, finally pulled through. And in Kentucky next day came a narrow victory for Republican Thruston Morton over Assistant Senate Majority Leader Earle Clements (see below). That brought the Senate count right back to 49 to 47 for the Democrats...
...Pennsylvania the volunteers (including a solid representation from labor) played a key part in Joe Clark's victory over Republican Senator James H. Duff. Clark, many a Pennsylvania Democrat is sure, is just the kind of politician the party is looking for to fill the vacuum at the top. Like Adlai Stevenson, Harvard-man Clark is wealthy and articulate, but Clark is far ahead of Stevenson in his ability to get his ideas across to the plain citizen. (And, unlike Stevenson, quipped a Pittsburgh newsman, his name is Joe.) When Clark ran for mayor of Philadelphia five years...