Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But nowhere was the Democratic gain more impressive than in Connecticut. And in Connecticut none of the Democratic victories were more impressive than two: 1 ) in Eastern Connecticut's Second District, onetime (1951-53) Ambassador to India Chester Bowles, 57, toppled five-term Republican Horace Seely-Brown Jr. ; 2...
Oregon: In campaign's last minute, U.S. Senator Wayne Morse stuck his new (since 1955) Democratic nose in the governorship race to gig Republican Mark Hatfield by dredging up an ancient traffic charge and making Hatfield the villain. Until then, the Democratic candidate, Robert D. Holmes, was the predicted...
Wisconsin: The indefatigably confident campaign of Democratic State Senator Gaylord A. Nelson, 42, caught fire in a state whose Republicans have despaired since losing Joe McCarthy's U.S. Senate seat last year to Democrat Bill Proxmire. Probably helped by Proxmire's thumping re-election victory, Nelson unseated once...
A gale front moved in fast from the Pacific, lashing the waves at the dark flanks of the mountains of the Alexander Archipelago jutting out of the sea. The DC-6C Golden Nugget dropped out of the clouds, lumbered only a few hundred feet above the water, slipped, wheels-down...
But such relaxed interludes were the exception for Campaigner Nixon. Even as Golden Nugget carried Nixon from Juneau to Anchorage-where he finally caught up with Candidate Stepovich-and on to Fairbanks this week, the rest of the U.S. was ready to vote (Nixon had already cast an absentee ballot...