Word: democrats
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...Republican success was not bloodless: two nationally prominent G.O.P. incumbents met defeat at the hands of Democratic unknowns. Rhode Island's John Chafee, a Rockefeller activist seeking his fourth term, and Montana's Tim Babcock, after a third term, were dropped by the only unifying issue of the gubernatorial contest?taxes. Chafee had endorsed a state income-tax increase from a maximum of 5% to 8% in order to bring in $35 million in much-needed revenues. His Democratic rival, Superior Court Justice Frank Licht, 52, countered with a proposed investment tax, and that turned the trick. Babcock opted...
...repeat of his 1966 defeat of ex-Governor Sam Goddard, aided by a liquor-board scandal uncovered in the debris of Goddard's earlier regime. Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship following a divorce earlier this year, managed to trounce Democrat Bronson LaFollette, 32, heir to a grand old Badger State name, but a man of little political experience. New Mexico's David Cargo, 39, barely squeaked past Democrat Fabian Chavez in a down-to-the-wire race. On the other hand, such Democrats as Missouri's Warren Hearnes, 45, North Dakota...
...TEXAS. Horn-rimmed glasses and a jaunty Stetson are the trademarks of Conservative Democrat Preston D. Smith, 56. The horn rims belong to the real estate entrepreneur and 18-year veteran of public office who had to work his way through high school at such jobs as picking cotton and pumping gas. The Stetsoned Smith is the campaigning frontiersman who flew to 249 of Texas' 254 counties to shake hands and exude confidence. Horn rims or hat, there was more than enough Smith to defeat Republican Paul W. Eggers...
Unsuccessful presidential candidates often achieve high status in other careers, as did John W. Davis, the Democrat who lost to Coolidge in 1924 and is remembered as one of the country's top constitutional lawyers. Thomas E. Dewey twice survived defeat in the presidential race to resume a prosperous career in the law. Instead of berating the man who beat him, Wendell Willkie went on a global fact-finding mission for F.D.R. After losing the Democratic nomination to John F. Kennedy in 1 Adlai Stevenson gracefully became Kennedy's Ambassador to the U.N. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, rejected...
Last month, at the height of Democrat Gerstein's campaign for reelection, the Herald finally found what it billed as evidence against him. His Re publican opponent, Shelby Highsmith, accused him of taking a $1,500 bribe eight years ago to drop bad-check charges against Howard C. Edwards, a former minister of the Christian Church, after Edwards had made the bad check good. As proof, Highsmith offered sworn statements from Edwards and an alleged contact man. Next day the Herald arranged to fly Edwards and his colleague to Chicago for lie-detector tests. Though Edwards' test...