Word: lehman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis Bean must have leaned back in his swivel chair and smiled last Wednesday morning when he read the results of New York's senatorial election. By giving Herbert Lehman a 200,000-vote majority, the electorate helped further to substantiate Bean's remarkable theory, which last year predicted Truman's victory and now calls for a Democratic landslide...
With 9,018 election districts reporting out of a New York State total of 9,565, the vote in the Senate race totalled: Lehman 2,460,407, Dulles...
...York voters elected Herbert H. Lehman Senator yesterday in a Democratic sweep of the state. John Foster Dulles, Lehman's opponent, conceded the election at 10:44 p.m. last night...
...Lehman, running on a Democrat-Liberal party ticket, had supported President Truman's "Fair Deal" program, while Republican Dulles has opposed Truman domestic policy. Voting was heavy...
President Truman stated that Lehman's victory over Dulles "will have a decided effect on the elections of 1950." His victory gave the Democrats 53 Senate seats to 43 for the Republicans. He had been actively opposed by Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who had also campaigned for Morris; Lehman's victory was widely interpreted last night as a vote of approval for Truman's present administration...