Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Carroll, who still carries the childhood nickname of "Jinx," has been called the most predictable man in Colorado politics (Vice President Nixon last week gave his version of Carroll's predictability by describing him as a "left-winger"). Liberal Carroll has made up his longtime feud with Conservative Ed Johnson, thereby hurdling one of the main obstacles to his election...
...Nevada at Large. In 1952, taking advantage of a Democratic feud (powerful old U.S. Senator Pat McCarran was knif ing the Democratic candidate for the other Senate seat), Republican Clifton Young slid in by 771 votes. This year McCarran is supporting the party's ticket, and Young is in trouble...
...hills of eastern Kentucky, the fight between the Kentucky Utilities Co. and public power groups has been almost as bitter as the famed Hatfield-McCoy feud. For 13 years the rural electric cooperatives and the private power company have blocked each other's expansion in the courts and before the state Public Utilities Commission. As a result, customers suffered with poor service at high cost. Last week the feud finally ended. Kentucky Utilities had a precedent-setting, ten-year agreement with 15 local cooperatives to exchange generating and transmission facilities. And the generators were turned on in a brand...
...Together. The peacemaker in the feud was Ancher Nelson, 49, a plain-spoken Minnesota Republican who was a farmer until he was appointed by President Eisenhower last year to replace onetime Agricultural Secretary Claude Wickard as boss of the Rural Electrification Administration. Shortly after he went into office, heads of the East Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing...
...acrid smoke of the Republican factional feud, Kansas Democrats sniffed a heady perfume. As bait for roiled Republicans, they nominated Banker George Docking, 50, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, hoped they might elect a governor for the first time since 1936, when Walter A. Huxman rode in on Franklin Roosevelt's coattails...