Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Less dramatic, but equally worrisome to the national Republican Party, was the fact that the winning margin of G.O.P. Senator Margaret Chase Smith was off twelve percentage points from her margin in 1948. Likewise the winning margins of her three congressional running mates were off by an average twelve percentage points from 1952. Granted that they were running against tougher candidates; this, in itself, betokened better Democratic organization. A national trend one-half that strong would mean disaster for the Republicans this fall...
...Britain, according to the latest Gallup Poll, the Attlee tour was popular. In favor: 43%; against: 20%; don't know or don't care: 37%. Conservative voters disapproved of the tour, but only by a margin of 37% to 28%. Laborites gave their leader a rousing 63% to 8% cheer. The poll had been taken at the tour's outset, and perhaps subsequent events had changed a few minds: the British press, at least, was developing serious objections. "Not since Marco Polo," observed Lord Beaverbrook's breezy Daily Express, "has there been a more astonishing pilgrimage...
Were any of the sustaining summer shows good enough to carry on into the fall as sponsored programs? The trade magazine Tide asked the question of more than 3,000 industry executives, found three shows in front by a wide margin: The Marriage, starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn; Adventure; and Shakespeare on TV, featuring Southern California's Professor Frank C. Baxter...
...final vote was a triumph for Studebaker Chairman Paul Hoffman and President Harold Vance, and a vindication for Louis Horvath, president of Local 5. By a margin of better than eight to one, the workers agreed to take the pay cuts...
...Governor Edward F. Arn and two captains of Dwight Eisenhower's 1952 campaign, Senator Frank Carlson and National Committeeman Harry Darby. Arn openly and Carlson and Darby quietly backed Party Stalwart George Templar, 49, as Arn's successor. But by a margin of 15,000 votes, Templar, onetime U.S. attorney and state senator, was overpowered by the winner: scrappy, jaunty Lieutenant Governor Frederick Lee Hall...