Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Huey, proclaimed: "I've been hearing things like that 'integrate or get out' for a long time. You can tell Mr. Butler I said I don't intend to do either." Many a Southern politician echoed the sharp words of Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman: "Instead of the South being thrown out, Mr. Butler may be thrown...
California: The G.O.P. civil war promises Democratic victory: latest polls show once-popular liberal Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, 61, trailing considerably behind his Senate opponent, lesser-known northern California Congressman Clair Engle, 47, right-wing Democrat...
Connecticut: Incumbent Republican William Purtell, 61, full-voiced, energetic, up-from-the-tenements screw manufacturer, and Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, 51, suave, quick-witted ex-FBI man, lawyer and wheelhorse Democrat, have hit nearly all of Connecticut's 169 cities and towns in handshaking campaigns. Eisenhower Republican Purtell points to his voting record, hits hard at union bossism. Middle-Road Democrat Dodd criticizes Republican foreign policy, has strong support from labor's Committee on Political Education. The outcome may hinge on the size of Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff's re-election victory...
Maryland: Against a Democratic Party unified and ostentatiously campaigning as a single slate for the first time in twelve years, nice but lackluster Republican Incumbent J. Glenn Beall, 64, is hard pressed. Beall has the support of Baltimore's powerful Sun newspapers, has a quiet person-to-person effectiveness among Maryland's Baltimore-suspicious rural voters. His Democratic opponent, Baltimore's eleven-year Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, 55, has weathered scandal and long odds to win every one of his 23 campaigns in 32 years of professional politics, has strong city strength and is hanging...
...says his other waste-cutting, tax-loophole-plugging bills would more than make up the deficit). Reason No. 2: The G.O.P. managed at its state convention last May to paper over the long, debilitating feud between Taft and Eisenhower factions, settled on a compromise candidate named Roland J. Steinle. 62, a former state supreme court justice who had been out of politics for years and had few enemies. But in the campaign's heat Steinle turned out to be 1) ineffective on the stump; 2) too conservative for some Ikemen; 3) too little known statewide, even though his Catholicism...