Word: denney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automobile as a badge of success is fading out," says Chicago Sociologist Reuel Denney. "Too many people are wearing the badge, and it doesn't mean anything any more. The buyer also has the feeling that he's not getting enough out of it because of this obsolescence in styling. There's not enough rarity and not enough enjoyment...
...characteristically too high, guessed that he would win by no more than 70,000. When the votes were counted, it turned out that even Happy's happy estimate had been too cautious. He ran up a total of 457,185 votes to beat Republican Candidate Edwin R. Denney by 131,353; the biggest majority a candidate for governor ever piled up in Kentucky...
...back-thumping campaign (TIME, Aug. 8) were key factors in the size of his victory. But there was a national issue involved: falling prices on the farm. Chandler hit hard at U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's farm program, crying: "Why, if you elect this fellow [Denney] this fall next year he'll be helping Benson and those fellows up there." In rural Kentucky, there was a marked shift to the Democratic side from the 1954 congressional election, e.g., in west Kentucky's Hopkins County (tobacco), the Democrats gained 1,174 votes and the Republicans...
...election, Happy's Republican opponent, Judge Edwin R. Denney, 51, can hardly hope to match Chandler for winsomeness. A solid (6 ft. 2 in., 225 lbs.), solemn, soft-spoken mountaineer, he plans a campaign that will "stress honesty, frugality, economy and integrity in government." But with the Democrats loyally closing ranks, and Chandler's pretested corn-and-comedy act on the road again, G.O.P. hopes look dim indeed...
...Lonely Crowd (373 pp.)-with Reuel Denney and Nathan Glazer-Yale ($4). Others: Faces in the Crowd (741 pp.)-Yale ($5); Thorstein Veblen (209 pp.)-Scribner ($2.75); The Lonely Crowd (349 pp.)-Doubleday (95?); Individualism Reconsidered (507 pp.) -Free Press...