Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astonishment, was still fighting what seemed to be a losing battle. Among the critical engagements: CJ In Illinois, oleaginous Everett McKinley Dirksen took a tight grip on the Eisenhower coattails, discovered they were a dandy answer for the vigorous door-to-door, factory-to-factory handshaking campaign waged by Democrat Richard Stengel. Dirksen, like Eisenhower, cracked Cook County, the Democratic stronghold, coasted to his second term on the crest of a comfortable downstate Republican vote that shot his majority to better than 300,000 votes...
...York. State Attorney General Jacob K. Javits, 52, took retiring Democrat Herbert Lehman's seat with a decisive victory over New York City's Mayor Robert F. Wagner (TIME, Oct. 1 ). Ex-Congressman Javits (1947-54) rolled up an 885,000-vote lead over Wagner in Republican counties upstate, more than enough to counterpoint the Mayor's 441,000 Democratic edge in New York's five boroughs...
...Washington, where Democrats turned out the vote to defeat a right-to-work initiative, Ike-blessed Republican Governor Arthur B. Langlie failed resoundingly in an attempt to topple personable Democrat Warren Magnuson from the Senate seat "Maggie" has enjoyed for twelve years...
...four scattered states the Ike boom sent incumbent Republicans back to the Senate: Connecticut's Prescott Bush beat Congressman Thomas J. Dodd; Maryland's John Marshall Butler, elected six years ago with Joe McCarthy's assistance, without it this time downed Democrat George P. Mahoney by 50,000 votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle...
...coattails were broadest in the most heavily urban area of the U.S.-the Northeast. In Connecticut, Republican Edwin H. May Jr. solidly carried the industrial First District. Democratic Senatorial Candidate Thomas Dodd's old stamping ground, and thereby snatched away from the Democrats the only one of Connecticut's six House seats that remained in Democratic hands after 1954. (In the heavily Italian Third District, which centers on New Haven, Democrat Robert Giaimo waited only 47 minutes after the polls had closed before conceding that Republican Albert Cretella had won a third term...