Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the second attempt at the mayor's office made by the one-time Eli publicity head. In 1951, when Celentano was re-elected by a bare margin of two votes, a Yale man commented. "It proves nothing except there are two more Italians than Yalies in New Haven...
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. was elected Mayor of New York in the biggest Democratic city-wide landslide in eight years. He won with expected ease, piling up a margin of almost 2 to 1 over his nearest rival, Republican Harold Riegelman, in four of the five boroughs. They split evenly in the fifth. Liberal Party candidate Rudolph Halley, with 370,000 votes, was third behind Riegelman's 527,000 and Wagner...
...horse starter at a race track, as speaker of the state assembly. The Republicans have dominated both the assembly and senate for 56 of the last 60 years, have held down the governor's blue chair for a decade, and last year gave Dwight Eisenhower a huge margin of 359,000 votes. With that background, the G.O.P. should be certain of electing its candidate for governor in next week's elections. But what was happening to the G.O.P. in Jersey should have been an inspiration last week to downcast Democrats everywhere...
...diagnosis and treatment of anemia." says Dr. Wintrobe, "depends on an ounce of knowledge, an equal amount of understanding, and a pound of thoroughness." This thoroughness begins with determining the degree of anemia. Ordinary red blood-cell counts, Dr. Wintrobe insists, have a wide margin of error, and the only accurate test is the hematocrit method (his own invention), now being adopted by more and more hospitals...
Plan E lost out in the November election, but by the surprisingly small margin of four percent of the total vote. Thinking, however, that this reform move had spent itself in the losing fight, the old politicians went back to 'their self-seeking ways. They were, in fact, contemptuous of the part-time efforts of amateur do-gooders...