Word: gahagan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Nixon made his celebrated race for the Senate in 1950 against Democrat Helen Gahagan Douglas, Governor Warren withheld endorsement until the Nixon forces goaded Mrs. Douglas into endorsing Warren's Democratic rival for Governor, Jimmy Roosevelt. Warren then endorsed Nixon in this wondrous, no-name way: "In view of ... Mrs. Douglas' . . . statement, I might ask her how she expects I will vote when I mark my ballot for U.S. Senator next Tuesday...
...people of the world must use the force of public opinion to make world leaders negotiate on a basis of peace," Helen Gahagan Douglas said last night in the Harvard Freedom Council's ceremonies commemorating the first anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, "and we Americans must educate them to do this...
...Helen Gahagan Douglas, former Broadway star and Democratic representative from California, will be the featured speaker of the Harvard Freedom Council's commemoration of the first anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, tonight at 8 o'clock in New Lecture Hall...
...Iowa-born Ziffren, 43, is a political Johnny-come-lately who concentrated on practicing and teaching tax law around Chicago after graduation from Northwestern University. Moving to Los Angeles in 1943, he dipped a toe in the political pool by campaign fund raising. In 1950 he helped stage Helen Gahagan Douglas' unsuccessful battle against Dick Nixon for the U.S. Senate. Ziffren was named national committeeman in 1953, immediately set about reorganizing California's clanking party machinery, is given credit for the Democrats' 1956 gains in Congress (two) and the state legislature (two senate seats, five assembly seats...
...Helen Gahagan Douglas, onetime actress and San Francisco Opera Company diva before she became a three-term (1945-51) Democratic Representative from California, said she was returning to her first love, would give a Manhattan song recital at the end of the month...