Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oregon has long been a Republican state, but it is less conservative than conservationist. For almost a year, Democrat Richard L. Neuberger, a state senator, free-lance writer and amateur conservationist, has been barnstorming around Oregon in a bid to unseat Republican Senator Guy Cordon. Hitting at what he called the "giveaway" of natural resources, Neuberger seemed to be campaigning less against Cordon than against Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, whose "partnership" power policy has been received with mounting hostility in McKay's native state. To balding Dick Neuberger, this issue, especially the fight over the nearby Idaho Hell...
Republicans re-elected six Senators. Among the six: New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, the Senate's president pro tempore, South Dakota's Karl Mundt and Idaho's Henry Dworshak, who swamped Democrat Glen Taylor, Henry Wallace's banjo-playing running mate on 1948's Progressive ticket...
Returning to the state from Washington in mid-campaign, colorless, conscientious Guy Cordon, 64, discovered he was in a horse race, rode off to the hustings to deliver attacks on Republican-turned-Independent-Democrat Wayne Morse, his Senate colleague who backed Neuberger. Although Cordon's managers, unused to hard bush-beating, never got his campaign into full gallop, it seemed unlikely that a Republican would lose in Oregon...
...governor was Democrat George M. Leader, 36, a young man whom few outside of his home York County had ever heard of until eight months ago. On top of that, the state house of representatives went Democratic 111 to 99, and the state senate returned a bare Republican majority (27-23). Never before-not even when fun-loving George H. Earle rode the tidal crest of the New Deal wave in 1934 -had Democrats come so close to making a clean sweep in Harrisburg...
Losing Constructively. George Leader's long leap from Willow Brook Farm to the Statehouse in Harrisburg could only happen in Pennsylvania politics. Last February, when the state's top Democrats met in Harrisburg to select a gubernatorial candidate, Leader was just an uninvited nonentity. On the face of it, the logical Democratic candidate was Philadelphia's District Attorney Richardson Dilworth, who had given John Fine a hard fight in the gubernatorial race of 1950. But Dilworth, and his friend, Philadelphia's Mayor Joseph Clark, were embroiled in a nasty intraparty battle over a new city charter...