Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise of no one, was assigned the highest weight for his first handicap race?the Metropolitan. A pleasantly unswervable gentleman named John Blanks Campbell, veteran of 49 years at the tracks, enjoys the "dictatorial power to estimate the talents of horses at most of the big eastern race tracks and thereupon to garland each with an amount of weight theoretically calculated to make all the horses in a handicap race cross the finish line simultaneously. The idea for the Metropolitan was that Native Dancer should carry 130** and the next closest horse?Straight Face?should carry...
...Dewey back in the 1930's, when the two fought against the "white-shoe" faction of the New York County Republican committee. In this role, he engineered the nomination of Dewey for President in 1944 and 1948, playing a key-part in the bitter intra-party was between Eastern and Midwestern Republicans. In 1952, he sat in a little room in Chicago's Hilton hotel and directed the "Fair Play" offensive, which crushed the candidacy of Senator Taft...
There moves were political, designed to convince votes that the Eastern Republicans of the Executive Branch could handle the Communist problem as well as McCarthy, Jenner, or any of the party's right-wing. Once this was done, the second half of Brownell's strategy could proceed: to keep the McCarthy wing from using its anti-Communist crusade so rashly that it interfered with the operations of the Army and other important parts of the government. This is the meaning of the preparation of the Cohn-Schine charges...
...social reform out from under the Democrats and winning state elections when the national party was losing them. Dewey's "me-too" campaign of 1948 was an extension of the New York strategy to the national scene. Brownell has now reached out from his middle position to guide the Eastern Republicans, whose task for the last fourteen years has been first to beat the conservatives, then to turn around and top the Democrats...
...home-town square. Filled with a deep if obscure faith in the future, he marries Elisabeth and goes back to war, only to be killed by some innocent but suspicious Russian peasant prisoners when he frees them. For Ernst, and for the reader, all is finally quiet on the Eastern Front...