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Connecticut: Ex-Congressman Thomas J. Dodd turned a cautiously predicted victory into an overwhelming one, blasted Incumbent Republican Senator William Purtell out of office...
Overwhelming their Republican opponents Democratic Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff won re-election, Thomas J. Dodd toppled incumbent Senator William A. Purtell and Chester Bowles captured a Republican Congressional seat. Ribicoff piled up a 610,000 plurality...
Connecticut: Incumbent Republican William Purtell, 61, full-voiced, energetic, up-from-the-tenements screw manufacturer, and Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, 51, suave, quick-witted ex-FBI man, lawyer and wheelhorse Democrat, have hit nearly all of Connecticut's 169 cities and towns in handshaking campaigns. Eisenhower Republican Purtell points to his voting record, hits hard at union bossism. Middle-Road Democrat Dodd criticizes Republican foreign policy, has strong support from labor's Committee on Political Education. The outcome may hinge on the size of Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff's re-election victory...
...their effort at semantic contortion, the Republicans would classify most non-Southern Democratic candidates in the same political category as Lenin. The image, however, will not stick when applied to Clair Engle of California, Prof. Gale McGee, Wyoming; Eugene McCarthy, Minnesota; Ernest McFarland, Arizona; Thomas Dodd, Conncticut; William Proxmire, Wisconsin; and Philip A. Hart, Michigan. These Senate candidates are no more radical than the President himself. The difference between the Democrats and Mr. Eisenhower is the difference betwen vigorous, imaginative administration and stand-pat, muddle-of-the road government...
Connecticut. Democrats meeting in Hartford to choose a senatorial candidate bypassed the eager politicking of ex-Governor Chester Bowles and ex-Senator William Benton, onetime Manhattan advertising partners, instead picked former Congressman Thomas J. Dodd, 51, hardworking, seasoned politico, who will run against Republican Incumbent William A. Purtell...