Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority of those who are worried about it doubt that Stevenson could clean it up). The high cost of living has crept into kitchen doors while big paychecks march in the front: the pollsters think many a housewife is ready to vote Republican to hold down prices and that a larger proportion of women than men will vote for Dwight Eisenhower...
...Republicans and 14 by Democrats. The present division in the Senate is 49 Democrats, 46 Republicans and one newborn independent (Oregon's Fair-Dealing Wayne Morse, who resigned from the Republican Party last week). Thus, to win control, the Republicans must keep the 21 seats they now hold and win three more. It is doubtful that they can do that short of an Eisenhower landslide that would carry some of the weaker G.O.P. Senate candidates into office...
...school has opened for the avowed purpose of eliminating Zionist and Israeli influences from the lives of Jewish children in the U.S. The School for Judaism (enrollment: 115) is the first full-scale school to be run by the American Council for Judaism, an organization of U.S. Jews who hold that the loyalty urged on all Jews by the State of Israel is debasing Judaism from a universal world religion into a "nationalist faith" based on "the primacy of the Jewish people...
Because the 1950 senatorial contest was decided by only 1,102 votes, splinter candidates Kellems and McLevy probably hold the balance of power in the Benton-Purtell race. Kellems, a manufacturer who has been waging a one-woman feud with an oblivious U.S. government, classes herself an Independent Republican and may attract some disgruntled Taftites. The Democrats are more worried about McLevy, however, than the regular Republicans are about Kellems. McLevy is not much of a Socialist, but he's an unbelievably strong party boss in his city of Bridgeport, where he has been mayor for more than ten years...
...uncovered a Communist spy. The problem of "McCarthyism" is more serious, and has been blurred by Presidential campaign blasts. For the crucial domestic issues are not which pressure group will milk the Government driest, or how many tax collectors will get fired. The real issue is whether we can hold onto that handful of political and civil freedoms which make our system worth preserving...