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Word: harrimans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nice that Harriman and Rockefeller -these offspring of "robber barons"-are now champions of the little man. We in Michigan are lucky too! Soapy Williams has forsaken a promising square-dancing career to play Governor. I guess our cups runneth all over everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...belated Republican drive continued up to election day, the inches might add up to two or three additional Republican governorships (most likely: a victory by Republican Nelson Rockefeller over Democrat Averell Harriman in New York) and a substantial cutting of expected losses in the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: A Matter of Inches? | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...loped toward the finish line in his high-stakes campaign to win New York's governorship, Republican Candidate Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller knew that he was winning sizable blocs of New York City's normally Democratic liberals away from Democrat Averell Harriman. He also was aware that New York liberals constitutionally have no use for Vice President Richard Nixon. Day before Nixon was due in Manhattan to boost the campaign of G.O.P. Senatorial Candidate Kenneth Keating and G.O.P. candidates for Congress, Rockefeller's campaign adviser, State Chairman L. Judson Morhouse, got Nixon on the phone in New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Breakfast at the Waldorf | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

According to Cherington, "Rockefeller might squeak past Harriman," but Freidel and Schlesinger gave the incumbent Governor an edge. All agreed that Rockefeller has gained considerable strength during the campaign and that a victory would make him a good possibility for the Republican Presidential nomination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Predict National, Local Election Wins for Democratic Party | 10/29/1958 | See Source »

Eleanor Roosevelt, 74, talked and talked in New York for Averell Harriman, dashed out to Topeka, where she made her comparisons between her husband and the White House's present resident: "We have never lacked greatness but at the moment we lack leadership. Education has been lacking for the chief educator, the President of the United States. It has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Love That Warmth | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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