Word: hanley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lehman Beats Hanley...
...some cases, of course, there would appear to be more involved than this party against party issue. It is relatively easy for the honest voter to make his choice when he can pick Lehman over Hanley. It is harder when he must choose between Taft and Ferguson. Yet, in the last analysis, it is party votes which count in Washington, after the speeches are over and done with...
...Somehow Hanley's letter, in which he said his financial obligations would be cleared up if he switched to the senate race, got into Democratic hands so that the G.O.P. released it themselves to take the edge off the news. In the opinion of many, Dewey no longer seems like an "able executive" after the Hanley affair but more like a "cold politician who forces his will on others...
...public attacks, as a result of the "Hanley letter," have all been directed at Dewey, but privately the letter has cost Hanley even more votes. In it, he describes himself as "humiliated, disappointed, and heartsick," and hardly gives the voters a favorable impression of the type of senator he would make...
...looks as if Hanley will need the job he talks about in the letter--" (if I lose) I have an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement whereby I will be given a job with the state." Lehman, the incumbent, soundly beat John Foster Dulles last year to win the Senate post and also won over Dewey in 1938, when the latter first tried for the governorship. In an uncertain year, Lehman's election is as definite as anything...