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Indiana: In a big switch for a Republican state-and still vindicating insistent newspaper polls-Evansville's Democratic Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39, overran Governor Harold Handley, 48, who was bedeviled by recession ills, high taxes and highway scandals...
Democrat Vance Hartke took over the Senate seat vacated by the retiring Republican Sen. Edward Jenner by defeating Republican Harold Handley...
Indiana: Running for the seat of retiring William Jenner, Republican Governor Harold Handley, 48, onetime coal shoveler (at 25? an hour) and former (1953-56) lieutenant governor, is in the hot seat. Issues: unemployment (mostly around South Bend), high taxes (raised in 1957), highway scandals (during the administration of Handley's predecessor, George Craig), right-to-work (last fortnight Handley went all out for right-to-work). Handley is throwing the book at his opponent, Evansville Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39, accusing him of running a corrupt administration in his home town and of being a tool...
Indiana. Retiring Republican Senator William Jenner, 49, succeeded in promoting the G.O.P. nomination of his hand-picked candidate: Republican Governor Harold Willis Handley, 48. Handley's Democratic opponent: Evansville's Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39. whose chances-remarkable in the traditionally Republican Hoosier state-are fifty-fifty...
During the supposedly secret conference, Charlie Halleck and Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart bellowed their defiance across the table at Indiana's Republican State Chairman Robert Matthews and Governor Harold W. Handley, who is hungrily eying the U.S. Senate seat that William E. Jenner will put up for grabs next year. Roared Senator Capehart: "We're split right down the middle. All you do is beat the brains out of the Eisenhower Administration. All you do is assure the election of a Democratic President in 1960." To State Chairman Matthews, who all but read Eisenhower Republican Halleck...