Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank McKinney, former Democratic national chairman (1951-53). who still speaks with the political voice of Harry S. Truman. McKinney wanted to get going right away on a Symington-for-President organization. Stu Symington threw up his hands in horror. All he wanted, he cried, was to campaign hard for re-election in Missouri...
...campaign hard, and he did win big, by a near-record 402,000 votes over a nice Republican lady. That consolidated his position as a Democratic hopeful...
...raiser or Barnburner." Kennedy came out of nowhere in 1956 with a breathless, near-successful try. with heavy Southern support, at plucking the vice-presidential nomination out of Estes Kefauver's shaken hands. A few months later, after Dwight Eisenhower's election, Kennedy was set to thinking hard when Hubert Humphrey's wife Muriel remarked at a cocktail party: "If Stu Symington is the competition for President, then it's a wide-open race." Kennedy has been campaigning ever since. He has been in every state of the Union except Tennessee, has come to know...
While none of the other Democratic candidates commanded as broad a lead as Bob Bartlett, they seemed far enough ahead of their Republican opponents to warrant all the push Fred Seaton could give-and Seaton pushed hard. He collected all the "things that ought to be done" and saved them for his campaign trip, frankly admitted that his basket of good news was calculated to help win the election. In Juneau he announced a long-awaited ban on the hated fish traps, symbol of the control of "absentee" Northwest fish canners and a chief cause of depletion of fish stocks...
...James Michael Curley had lived a long life, improved the lot of many, been genuinely loved by many, and presumably he had died in God's grace. But it was better, looking back over his 60-year political career, to let the gentle shawl of legend disguise the hard shape of history...