Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...England, chronic economic problems obviously played a major part in Democratic gains and sharply reduced Republican margins. In West Virginia, hard hit by recession, Democrats easily won two Senate seats. In New York, Rockefeller successfully managed to blame state economic problems on Democratic Governor Averell Harriman...
Implications of the Massachusetts election returns are great. Kennedy's record showing definitely pushed him to the forefront of the Democratic party ranks. With Harriman's defeat in New York and the relatively poor showing of Governor Williams in Michigan, Kennedy has emerged from this election as the number one contender for the 1960 Presidential nomination...
...interest tonight will focus on gubernatorial races in the nation's two most populous states. In New York's battle of the millionaires, Governor W. Averell Harriman is fighting for his political life against personable, popular Nelson A. Rockefeller. Harriman was the overwhelming favorite when the campaign began, but his Republican opponent has made substantial gains in recent weeks and now appears to hold a slight edge...
...left to Democrat Harriman to mutter ominously about a Nixon-Rockefeller "deal or understanding . . . It appears to be New York delegation support for Nixon in 1960." said he, "with Mr. Rockefeller playing some part in the Nixon campaign, to tend to give Nixon respectability...
...Harlem last week, New York's Governor Averell Harriman was banking on Harry Truman in a desperate effort to get back some of the votes Harriman knew Orval Faubus was costing him. If Truman had been President, said Ave to the Harlem audience, he would have sent the paratroops to Little Rock in 24 hours rather than waiting three weeks as Republican Eisenhower did. "Is that right, Mr. President?" demanded Ave in one of those of-course lines. But Truman threw away the script, ducked behind the claim that he "wouldn't have had all this trouble." Said...