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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second function of a newsmagazine is to know what the news means-and this requires not off-the-cuff punditry but the gathering of more news. Last week TIME correspondents who had covered the campaign went back on the road, dug deep into the precinct facts which gave meaning to Election Year 1958. Thus TIME'S editors could: ¶ Interpret the true significance of two Democrats who got drowned in an otherwise all-Democratic tide in Massachusetts, see THE NATION, Moderate Mandate. ¶ Show how the least publicized of all the elections might have the longest-lasting national effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...third function of a newsmagazine is to get read. As every reader knows, TIME circulates in almost every country in the world. Reader Martin L. Bartling Jr., a Knoxville (Tenn.) housebuilder, had this global fact impressed on him in a way that astounded him-as well as the Knoxville post office. Bartling is the builder of the $13,500 model home, sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders, that TIME told about in BUSINESS in the Oct. 27 issue. Hardly had the magazine reached subscribers when the mail began to pour in-from 49 states, the Virgin Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...they"), and the voters' failure to understand the dangers of excessive federal spending. He had warned about the "spender-wing" of the Democratic Party in his campaign speeches, he said, but "apparently that didn't make any great impression" on the voters. "I don't know whether they did this thing deliberately," he went on. "I know this: that they obviously voted for people that I would class among the spenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morning-After Ordeal | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...think, well over 9,000,000 votes.* Now, here, only two years later, there is a complete reversal; and yet I do not see where there is anything that these people consciously want the Administration to do differently. And if I am wrong, I'd like to know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morning-After Ordeal | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...soundness." Again and again he harped on the "spending" theme. "We have got to stop spending if we are going to keep further dilution of the dollar from taking place," he said. During the next two years, he vowed, "I am going to fight this as hard as I know how." It was vital, he said, to get the U.S. "awakened to this particular danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Morning-After Ordeal | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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