Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Democratic Party won control of the U.S. House of Representatives by a 29-seat margin, 232 to 203. Of the 435 places in the House, only 27 changed party hands; 22 of these were taken by Democrats (including one from an unaffiliated incumbent, Frazier Reams, in Ohio). The House elections, regionally...
...Connecticut, 44-year-old Abraham A. Ribicoff upset Republican Governor John Lodge by a margin of only 2,800 votes of some 936,000 cast. Democrat Ribicoff, who will be the first Jewish governor in New England history, was elected to the Connecticut house of representatives in 1938. He was elected to Congress in 1948, re-elected in 1950. In 1952 he tried for the U.S. Senate, was a victim of the Eisenhower landslide. In this year's campaign, Ribicoff said "Nowhere except in the Democratic Party could a boy named Abe Ribicoff be nominated for governor in this...
...down to 23,000-and was still dwindling as suburban and upstate returns came in. When the unofficial count was complete, 24 hours after the polls closed, Harriman was the winner by 9,657 votes, in a total vote of more than 5,000,000. It was the closest margin in a race for governor of New York in this century...
Javits won by holding Roosevelt's margin 4% below Harriman's in Democratic New York City. Junior was cut all over the city in districts with a wide variety of voters. Some of the severest cuts in his majority came in the heavily Jewish Fifth Assembly District of Manhattan, the heart of his own congressional bailiwick, where Junior ran 5,000 votes behind Harriman, and Javits ran 5,000 ahead of Ives In Manhattan's Fifteenth Assembly District, another heavily Jewish area, which is the heart of Javits' congressional district, Roosevelt ran 8,800 votes behind...
When the vote count was barely under way, Batista gave the counters their cue. ''Seventy percent of the electorate voted, and 60% have voted for me," he told his followers. To no one's surprise, the final returns reported a 70% vote and a 6-1 margin for Batista. The opposition votes went to Grau, whose name remained on the ballots despite his walkout. Batista's four-party coalition bagged its constitutional limit of Senate seats (36 out of 54), all nine provincial governorships, and most other offices. Said Grau: "The future of Cuba is dark...