Word: iowa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hidebound areas jumped traditional party lines in pursuit of their local or regional interests. Kansas Republicans, fed up with G.O.P. factionalism, named Democrat George Docking governor over Warren Shaw (who suffered the additional liability of charges that he had taken kickbacks on gasoline sales to the state). In Republican Iowa, voters resented G.O.P. Governor Leo Hoegh's move-fast, high-tax program (TIME, Oct. 22), and elected Democrat Herschel Loveless. In West Virginia, corruption charges against the outgoing Democratic state administration resulted in the election of Republican Old Guardsman Chapman Revercomb to the U.S. Senate and of Republican Cecil...
...House, the Democratic victory was more decisive. Going into the election, the Democrats held 230 House seats (needed for control: 218). They picked up all their seats west of the Mississippi: one apiece in Iowa. Kansas. Missouri, South Dakota, Nevada and Montana; two apiece in Oregon and California. The Republicans gained one apiece in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana. Michigan and Pennsylvania, two in New Jersey and West Virginia. Total: at least 233 Democratic, with three still in doubt...
...governors, 27 were Democrats and 21 were Republicans before the election. Of the 30 state houses contested this year, 14 were Democratic and 16 Republican. The Republicans dumped Democrats in West Virginia. Ohio and New Mexico; the Democrats routed Republicans in Massachusetts. Iowa. Kansas, Oregon and Washington. Net Democratic gain: one. Still undecided at week's end: Rhode Island...
...Iowa's farmers and small townsmen took out their troubles on their Republican Governor Leo Hoegh (TIME, Oct. 22 ), turned the statehouse over to the first Democrat since 1936, Herschel Loveless. Said Hoegh: "This election has been good for Eisenhower, but it has been tough on some of us Ike originals...
Among them are Iowa's Amana Refrigerator, Inc., which concentrates its advertising budget on home freezers, claims to be the biggest producer of them; Michigan's Ironrite Co., which grosses $6,000,000 a year by renting ironing machines, letting housewives apply payments toward later purchase of ironers; Philadelphia's Proctor Electric Co., which turned out an iron with steam holes over its entire sole rather than just the tip, now has sales galloping 300% ahead of last year...