Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second factor was the unpopularity of Republican Governor John Fine's administration and a Pandora's box of contributing local issues. Added to this, the Republicans ran a poor campaign with an unfortunate candidate. Lieutenant Governor Lloyd Wood, a cigar-chomping politician. Wood had to carry all of the liabilities and secured none of the assets of the Republican organization's 100-year-old reputation. The evil that political machines do lives long after their effectiveness is gone...
Along with poultry, Guy Leader developed a lifelong interest in politics, became a local Democratic leader (York County, resting on the Mason-Dixon line, has always been sympathetic to the Democratic Party). It was only natural that his seven children should consume large slabs of politics along with the eppel sas kuuche, schmierkäse and Lebanon baloney at their father's groaning dinner table. As a teenager, George chauffeured voters on Election Day, and while he was in college, he "worked the polls" for his sister-in-law's father, who was running for the York County...
...Lutheran." George had been an alert student, frisked through eight grades at the local one-room school in six years, graduated from York High at 16. He wanted to go to Swarthmore, but father Leader vetoed that seat of Quakerism with five words: "No, you are a Lutheran."* So George obediently went off to nearby Gettysburg College, a small (1,200 students) institution affiliated with the Lutheran Church. In his senior year he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in order to study more political science, sociology and history. He graduated in 1939, and promptly married Mary Jane Strickler...
STATE and local political organizations generally work harder to elect a governor than a Congressman, and for good reason. A governor can dispense far more patronage, let more contracts and do more favors than can any U.S. Congressman or Senator, a fact that leads to the philosophy: "Protect the barn-the hell with the com fields." In last week's elections the Democratic Party did much better than the G.O.P in protecting the barn. The Democrats elected governors in seven states that had been controlled by the G.O.P.: Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota, Connecticut, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico (they...
...reasons for the stronger Democratic showing on governors than on Senators were mostly local or personal. One national factor was that Eisenhower's popularity is even less transferable to G.O.P. candidates for governorships than for Congress. Voters who saw a certain element of logic in the President's appeal for a Republican Congress saw no reason why Ike needed Republican governors. Thus the Republicans lost one of their great 1952 advantages, the fact that they controlled a majority of governorships...