Word: errett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second District, Republican Errett Scrivner, best remembered for his demand for the return of the suit with two pairs of pants during World War II, has held forth for 15 years. Scrivner should win against Lawyer Newell George-but Kansas is holding a right-to-work referendum and labor is working furiously in industrial Kansas City, which lies in Scrivner's district. Similarly, in the First District, Republican Incumbent William Avery should win against Topeka Lawyer Robert Domme but is plagued by a migration away from the farm towns to Topeka, where labor's C.O.P.E. is battling right...
...Cord built a financial empire. Starting in 1956, he also got his feet wet in Nevada politics (as a state senator), and enjoyed the sensation. By last spring, as a result, a new empire was shaping up. A Cord machine dominated the state Democratic convention, paved the path for Errett Lobban Cord to become governor (TIME...
...gaudy Strip, vacationers pumped the slot machines and queued up for ten-course $1.25 lunches. And at a state convention in Hawthorn (pop. 3,700), Nevada's Democratic Party was practically taken over lock, stock and barrel by one of the most remarkable new figures in U.S. politics: Errett Lobban Cord, sometime Wall Street tycoon and longtime millionaire recluse, now turned glad-handing vote chaser...
...during his 40 frenzied financial years Errett Lobban Cord made a fetish of personal privacy, kept his door closed to all interviewers, stayed out of the gossip columns and away from all but a chosen few friends. It was only when he went into politics two years ago that Cord suddenly emerged as a hail fellow who obviously enjoyed his new role...
...Democratic state central committee; rammed through was a platform that clearly mirrored Cord's position on such issues as gambling (for relaxed laws), foreign aid (for less) and aid to education (for more). What most of the delegates wanted as they departed was that fast-rising New Boss Errett Lobban Cord would announce his candidacy for Governor...