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The fact that key symbols of both parties happen to be seeking re-election makes this fall's campaign much more than a more struggle for short-run control of Congress. Observers will be keenly watching the personal campaigns of Republicans Taft, Dcwey, and Milliken and of Democrats Lucas, Meyers...
Illinois: Majority Leader Scott Lucas, who has forged ahead of ex-Representative Everett Dirksen since the landing at Inchon.
What About Taft? For the rest of the day and well into the evening, Douglas kept at it through a full 20 speeches. The advice: re-elect Lucas, without whom "we would have lost rent control," who "led the fight for increasing the minimum wage from 40? to 75? . . . Are...
This week Illinois' campaign rattled on. Republican Dirksen, who once voted for the Marshall Plan, more recently denounced it as money poured down a "bottomless pit," hammered at "creeping socialism," at "bungling" at Yalta and Potsdam, at "appeasement, vacillation and weakness" which, he charged, led up to the Korean...
In one of the closest races of the 1950 campaign, both sides were working up to an all-out effort. For Democrats and Republicans alike, Illinois was a critical battlefront. Republicans were counting on Candidate Dirksen as a top bet to pick up one of the seven seats they needed...