Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mumble like Kefauver." In Idaho's First District, Republican Louise Shadduck, 39, is just beginning to make progress against 50-year-old Incumbent Democrat Grade Pfost (pronounced, as in her 1952 campaign slogan, "Tie Your Vote to a Solid Post"). In the populous Sixth District of New Jersey, Republican Assemblywoman Florence Dwyer is a real threat to hardworking, young (36) Democratic Representative Harrison ("Pete") Williams Jr. And in West Virginia, Republican Mary Elkins, 53, wife of onetime (1919-25) Senator Davis Elkins, has an advantage over most House candidates in her race against Democratic Incumbent Harley Staggers...
...foot in the popularity of his party's most attractive public figures. After reaching for Magnuson in Washington, he jumped to the side of Wayne Morse in Oregon. Then in California he multiplied the tactic by importing the services of five silver-tongued, big-name Democratic officeholders-New Jersey's Governor Robert Mey-ner, Pennsylvania's Governor George Leader, Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement and Senator Albert Gore, and Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. All but Clement appeared with Stevenson on a nationally televised panel discussion of the Government's role in public health...
Blitzing New Jersey, New Hampshire and New York last week in an assault on G.O.P. Eastern strongholds, Estes Kefauver ignored noisy Eisenhower enthusiasts among his street-corner crowds and an Oklahoma-born cold that reduced his drawling dramatics to a-hoarse whisper. But the vice-presidential nominee and aides were hard put to ignore what they considered a pointed dig: the absence of New York Democratic bigwigs from the Syracuse-Rochester-Buffalo area when Kefauver made a one-day stand in upper New York state...
WHEN A New Jersey clothing chain opened a new branch at Union Township one day this month, 20,000 first-day shoppers from a 30-mile radius jammed highway 22 for four solid miles. Main reason for the stampede: the store opened on a Sunday, thus permitting entire families to do their shopping together. Such booming Sabbath business has become a nationwide phenomenon-and one of the hottest controversies in U.S. retailing...
...School, which had 518 Negroes. Her sister attended Powell with 214 Negroes and 138 whites. The daughter of Allen Reed, presidential legislative analyst, went to school with 20 Negroes, and the three daughters of Maxwell Rabb, secretary to the Cabinet, attended integrated schools. At Jackson Elementary School, which New Jersey Senator Clifford Case's son attended, there were 39 Negroes. Even some of the Southern and border-state Senators have become colorblind. The daughters of Louisiana's Russell Long went to Horace Mann. The daughter of Texas' Price Daniel and the son of Indiana's William...