Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eisenhower's ideological coattails were of decisive help in only three U.S. congressional races (Hartford, Conn., Jersey City and Wheeling, W. Va.) and one U.S. Senate contest (Prescott Bush's Connecticut victory...
...Only Ohio and West Virginia have replaced Democratic governors with Republicans. Democrats have ousted Republicans from the statehouses of Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Washington...
...Taft (William H. in 1912 and Robert A. in 1952). It is at its strongest in the organization-minded U.S. Senate, where Old Guardsmen pretty much run things and come-lately Eisenhower Republicans spend their time on the District of Columbia Committee (on the current District Committee: New Jersey's Clifford Case, New York's Jacob Javits, Kentucky's Thruston Morton...
...Duffy began his career at BBDO as a messenger boy. Tall, lumbering Charlie Brower also started under inauspicious circumstances. A New Jersey native and Rutgers graduate ('25), he approached the agency in 1926 after a stint as teacher and basketball coach in a New Jersey high school. He was turned down flat. After two years and several more turndowns, he was hired as a copywriter-only to discover that the man who hired him had been fired two days later. After three weeks of sitting around the office, Brower convinced the agency that he really had been hired. When...
...this should be accomplished with Texas money." In spite of serious shortages in New York City and on Long Island, New York officials are not at all worried about raising the more than $1½ billion the state will need by 1960. But New York-like Massachusetts and New Jersey-has another reason for being cool to federal aid: it would have to pay out far more to support a national program than it would get back...