Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Connecticut: Ike stands to win by plurality com parable to 129,363 of 1952. If he does, G.O.P. Senator Prescott Bush should be safe against an effective challenger, Democratic Congressman Thomas Dodd...
...confronted with a statement by Dr. Bella Dodd, in 1946 a prominent New York Communist and Teachers Union leader who later broke with the party. Its gist: Javits had visited her in 1946 "in connection with his political career." Replied...
Javits: "To get educated'' about New York affairs after his years in the army, he had called on scores of people-among them Mrs. Dodd. The visit had lasted "about ten or 15 minutes" and been devoted to teachers' problems. He "had no recollection of knowing she was ... an open and avowed Communist...