Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Mexico, Democratic Incumbent John F. Simms Jr., 39, gave up his seat to Edwin L. Mechem. 44, who had served two previous terms as governor (1950-54). Simms' weakness: no support from his powerful old political enemy Senator Dennis Chavez. Mechem's strength: a well-known name, a well-organized Republican caravan...
Framke was converted into a center this year after playing both fullback and tackle for several seasons at Edwin Denby High School in Detroit...
Spruce Ave., we suspected, was the "Main Street" for the community's 59,919 inhabitants. On it, or close by, slumbered some of Mount Auburn's most distinguished residents, including Phillips Brooks, President Eliot, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Sumner, Louis Agassiz, and Edwin Booth. Others, such as Amy Lowell, Francis Parkman, Josiah Royce, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, were further removed to be sure, but there seemed to be no class distinction in non-sectarian Mount Auburn, and most definitely, there was no "wrong side of the tracks." Spruce Ave., while invigorating, seemed exhausting, and we felt our temples throb...
...Washington. British Atomic Chief Sir Edwin Plowden told a World Bank symposium that when the world's first civilian power plant starts operating at Calder Hall this month "the total cost of power . . . should be approximately the same as that from coal-or oil-fired stations in the United Kingdom." Plowden also sketched a timetable for commercial nuclear power in other parts of the world, foresaw its arrival in France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Spain and South Australia in the early 1960s. Scandinavian countries in the 1970s. Russia and the U.S., added Plowden. "will have a number of 'power...