Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower avalanche was awesome in its force and fury. It crushed Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the entire Northeast, swept across Midwestern farmlands with a setback only in Missouri, shattered Democratic presidential hopes on the Pacific Coast and burst through traditional Democratic barriers in the South-where Ike carried Texas, Florida, Virginia, West Virginia. Kentucky. Tennessee and, unbelievably, Louisiana. It tore city after city-from Jersey City to Chicago to Montgomery-from the Democratic grasp. It cut across nearly all racial, religious, ethnic and economic lines. It gave Dwight Eisenhower a victory surging toward the 10 million plurality mark, with about...
...victory was always in the cards," Democrat Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, said, but he added that many voters were anti-Stevenson because a "reflective, thoughtful person is hard to understand...
...other local races, it seems to be a toss-up between Republican Charles Gibbons and his opponent Robert Murphy for the post of Lieutenant Governor. In the contest for Attorney General, incumbent Republican George Fingold must rule the slight favorite over Boston City Councillor Edward J. McCormack. However, the Democrat has the support of Senator Kennedy, a strong voice in state politics, and his uncle, House Majority Leader John W. McCormack...
...Congressional elections, Torbert Macdonald, Democrat, is favored in the 8th district, and incumbent Laurence Curtis is given the edge over Jackson Holtz in the 10th district...
...enough to pull a Republican majority into the House of Representatives. (On the Senate he wasn't guessing.) Quick to sense the weakness of Adlai Stevenson's H-bomb proposal (it attempts to hit Eisenhower where he is strongest), Nixon set out to tie it to Democratic candidates for Congress. His challenge: "In view of the terrible danger this program presents, it is time for all candidates for national office to stand up and be counted on this issue. [ believe that every candidate for the House and Senate, Republican and Democrat, should state before Election Day whether...