Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primary election, Soapy himself, unopposed for renomination, threw his strength behind Philip A. Hart, his candidate for lieutenant governor. Opposing Hart was ' onetime Democratic National Committeeman George S. Fitzgerald, attorney for Jimmy Hoffa's anti-Williams A.F.L. Teamsters' Union. By a more than 2-1 margin, Soapy Williams' Candidate Hart won. Williams' men also won hotly contested city-council and probate-judgeship races in Detroit...
...term. His opponent in the Democratic primary. Attorney Ralph Yarborough of Austin, uncovered the embarrassing fact that Shivers had turned a $425,000 profit on a $25,000 investment in a strange Rio Grande Valley land deal eight years ago. Yarborough, who lost to Shivers in 1952 by a margin of almost 2 to 1, also kept reminding Texas Democrats that Shivers had swung Democratic Texas behind Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election...
Last week, after Texans marked primary ballots in sweltering 110° heat, incomplete returns gave Shivers only a 17,000-vote margin over Yarborough. The governor had been spared sudden death in the primary, but two minor candidates siphoned off enough votes to make a runoff virtually certain. Shivers was still in trouble: in six runoffs for governor in Texas, three candidates who led in the first primary have been defeated...
Although the poll indicated that the G.O.P. had not committed hara-kari in the hearing room, it was not completely cheering to party leaders. Since Southern states are Democratic by a margin of about 4-1, the Republicans need 55% of the vote in other states to keep control of the House. Running with Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, they got 54.9% and a shaky three-seat margin; this year the magic name will not be on the ballot...
...Blow. Last week, by a decisive vote of 505,000 to 223,000, the miners turned Nye and his policies down, and picked Gaitskell. To make the matter doubly clear, they rejected by a similar margin Bevan's starfcl against German rearmament. The vote was emphatic indication that despite the noisy outcry, Britons still reject the easy panacea of neutralism...