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...remarked that it had been a "very great personal honor; when a marshal takes off his ceremonial dagger and gives it to you, that's something." Next day the Eisenhower family went to the Abilene cemetery to look at the graves of the President's parents. David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower. The plain granite headstone marked "Eisenhower" was surrounded by dry, brown grass, and a worried frown crossed Ike's face. "Can't we do something about this old buffalo grass?" he asked...
...except one of the Democrats' statewide candidates squeaked into office with Harriman. The exception: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.,† whose magic name had been expected to push him ahead of Harriman. The man who beat Junior: Republican Jacob Koppel Javits, 50, a hard-working New York Congressman who is far more New Dealish than many Democrats. (He voted against the Taft-Hartley law, for continuing federal rent control,) Statewide, he ran 176,000 ahead of Junior, 36,000 ahead of Harriman. His total vote - 2,590,631 - made him 1954's biggest vote-getter...
Although Congressman Jacob K. Javits was a strong opponent and won many Jewish votes away from him, Roosevelt showed fatal weaknesses among certain other traditionally Democratic groups in the state, which do not have very much reverence for the Roosevelt name at present. The allegedly colorless Harriman ran 150,000 votes ahead of him and the little-known candidate for controller topped his total by almost the same margin...
They are: Jacob E. Berger '55 of Dudley and Brookline, Mass. (Biochemistry); Michael J. Cambern '55 of Winthrop and Wichita, Kansas (Romance Languages); Joseph Cooper '55 of Dunster and Akron, Ohio (Government); Peter Duus '55 of Winthrop and Wilmington, Delaware (History); Charles J. Epstein '55 of Adams and Philadelphia (Chemistry...
...Congress and are good campaigners. Yet any of them, or all three of them, might lose just because they are Republicans and Virginia is normally Democratic. North Carolina's G.O.P. Representative Charles Raper Jonas is in only a slightly better position. In New York's 21st District, Jacob Javits was the one Republican who could win. Now Javits is running for state attorney general, and Republican Candidate Floyd Cramer has little chance. The Republicans may drop a seat in California's 13th District because of the aroma left behind by G.O.P. Representative Ernest Bramblett, whose salary kickback...