Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special analysis of war veterans' ballots, Gallup found a slightly bigger margin for the Republicans. The veterans' vote...
...been 3.4 percentage points. And he was careful to note that in 1948 most of the "undecided" voters finally went to the Democratic side. But even after all the rules of caution are observed, the Republicans' 6% gain in the party poll and Eisenhower's overwhelming margin on the vital Korean war issue are important straws in the September political wind...
...crack golfer (shot a 66 last year), an enthusiastic glee clubber. He served as the party's finance chairman, 1947-50, and put on a razzle-dazzle show against razzle-dazzle Benton in the 1950 Senatorial campaign, which Bush lost by a narrow 1,102-vote margin...
...issue which Byrnes lacks in his home state. Shivers is making the most of it. When he announced that he wouldn't vote for Stevenson in November, Texans poured letters in on him at the rate of 1,000 a day, backed him up by an 8-1 margin. Attorney General Price Daniel, now running for the U.S. senatorial seat to be vacated by Tom Connally, also joined the revolt...
...free elections since the Weimar Republic. His program: all-out nationalism. His voice, stabbing and snarling, demanded return of the Saar (grabbed by France) and the lands east of the Oder (grabbed by Russia), demanded an end to reparations and occupation. The voters turned him down-by a narrow margin. The task of establishing a new German state "fell not to Socialist Kurt Schumacher but to conservative, commonsensical Christian Democrat Konrad Adenauer...