Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dewey is favored to defeat his formerly unknown opponent, Representative Walter A. Lynch, in the New York gubernatorial race, but the margin should be very close--nothing like the 687,000 plurality that the governor achieved in 1946. And Lynch may even upset Dewey, something which seemed impossible six weeks ago. The two factors which have weakened the governor's chances are a growing dislike of him in upstate New York and the "Hanley letter...
...still running for mayor, but at least Boss Flynn and Tammany had tried hard. In the confusion, there had seemed little chance for Flynn to deliver a big Democratic majority either for Lehman or for his hand-picked candidate for governor, lackluster Congressman (and Wall Street lawyer) Walter A. Lynch. But then, providentially, had come the Hanley letter...
...same time, the late war news has made the Republicans more vulnerable in such danger areas as Ohio, Colorado, and Missouri, Equally distressing to the GOP is the fear that the "Hanley letter" episode in New York State has suddenly given to the unknown Rep. Walter Lynch a chance to defeat Governor Thomas E. Dewey...
...Cronin, proprietor of a well-known Cambridge bar, has decided not to press charges against three "unruly' Dartmouth students. According to Cambridge police Sergeant John lynch, the trio was caught in the act of breaking a plate glass wall mirror at "Jim's Place" at 12:30 a.m. a half-hour after closing time...
...Lynch said that this will not end his anti-Communist bills. "By the good grace of the Lord that made me," he said, "I'll drive all the Reds out of Cambridge...