Word: erickson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primary would now go Republican, the G.O.P. thought it had a fair chance to win with Zales N. Ecton, a rancher whose chief appeal is "free enterprise." To almost all others it looked as if Ecton had only a slim hope of beating labor-backed Democrat Leif Erickson...
Violets, who'll buy my violets? Take these cupid eyes of blue. Let them lead you for diversion On a little spring excursion From the old love to the new. On the peculiar workings of the advertising mind-as represented in New York's McCann-Erickson agency-this saccharine ditty from the 1926 hit parade recently had a cataclysmic effect. For weeks the agency had been searching its accounts for a product that could be used as a tie-in to promote a lipstick and nail polish called "Ultra Violet," put out by Manhattan's Revlon Products...
...took his measure was smart, strapping (6 ft. 3 in.; 210 lbs.) Leif Erickson. A friendly, balding lawyer with a big, booming voice, he got his start long after Burt Wheeler had become a veteran of the Senate...
...farmer boy who made his way through the University of North Dakota and University of Chicago (LL.B., J.D.) by working as a cook and taxi driver, Leif Erickson won "his first political office (county attorney) in 1936. Until he was elected to the state supreme court in 1938, most Montanans had never heard of him; when he lost out to Wheeler-backed Republican Sam Ford in the 1944 campaign for governor, most voters figured he was through politically...
...Leif Erickson's selection for the President's railroad fact-finding board gave him national prominence. Last week the only thing that seemed able to stop him from taking over Senator Wheeler's seat in the Soth Congress was the possibility of a coalition of Wheeler Democrats and Republicans in the fall...