Word: edmunds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harvest 343 electoral votes-a margin for error of 77 over the needed 266. If this method conjured up doubts, there was another kind of arithmetic, based on the electoral votes of all the states that went heavily for Ike in 1952 but now have active Democratic governors, e.g., Edmund Muskie's Maine, Bob Meyner's New Jersey, Ernest McFarland's Arizona, and even (they told themselves) Frank Lausche's Ohio. And beyond all that lay the hopes of cracking the farm belt-the "Solid North" of the G.O.P...
Broderick was one of many: in the nation's first 1956 general election* the reign in Maine fell plainly on the Democrats. Democratic Governor Edmund Sixtus Muskie, 42, running for a second term against Willis A. Trafton Jr., 37, speaker of the state house of representatives, had been conceded an edge, but he was highly surprised by his 179,697-to-123,784 victory. Lewiston Lawyer and Democratic State Chairman Frank M. Coffin fared even more spectacularly by winning, for the first time in 22 years, the Democratic congressional seat in the industrial (Lewiston) Second District. Democrat James...
...Strobel's boss, General Services Administrator Edmund Mansure, resigned under Administration pressure after charges that he had helped give a $40,000 insurance contract at the U.S. Government's nickel plant in Nicaro, Cuba to an old Chicago political crony, William J. Balmer...
...nation's earliest general election, Maine voters will toss their traditional straws into the political wind Sept. 10. Holding the attention of most of the weather-vane watchers is the race between Maine's first Democratic governor in 20 years, Edmund S. Muskie, 42, and his Republican challenger, Willis A. Trafton Jr., a wealthy, 37-year-old attorney from Auburn. Muskie has campaigned hard on a record that some of Maine's most influential newspapers, e.g., the independent Gannett chain, have found good, while Trafton has appealed largely to Maine's Republicanism. By campaigning with...
Died. Thomas D. Bourdillon, 31, British physicist and rocket expert who in 1953, with Dr. Charles Evans, climbed to within 300 feet of Mt. Everest's peak before being turned back by bad weather and lack of oxygen, three days before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey made it to the top; in a fall while climbing Ausserberg in southern Switzerland...