Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice in 1947, Illinois Democrats picked him to run against Dwight Green, who seemed sure of reelection. Jacob ("Jack") M. Arvey, Cook County Democratic chairman, accepted Stevenson, whom he had met only a few months before, as the sacrificial lamb. Stevenson swept into office over Green by the biggest margin any candidate ever piled up in Illinois (572,000 votes), while Harry Truman won the state by a slim 33,612. As governor, Stevenson sent state police out to stop commercial gambling downstate when local officials failed to act, lopped 1,300 political hangers-on off the state payroll, replaced...
...life, bitterly attacked Harry Truman, and denounced Miller both as a Trumanite and (almost as appalling) a former Rhodes Scholar. When the vote for 1,691 of 1,783 precincts was in last week, Byrd had run up a lead of 87,000-the biggest contested primary margin in Virginia's history...
Caught by rising costs, he could never bring the price below $800, and even then his profit margin was slim. Crosley production hit a high of 28,000 a year, then skidded. In the last three years, Crosley Motors, Inc. has lost $1 million a year; Powel Crosley has had to pour $3 million of his own money into the company to keep it going...
...Bricker's motion and Brown's switched parliamentary maneuver. Thereafter occurred the dramatic two-hour debate on the merits of the whole rule proposal (TIME, July 14); the chair put Brown's amendment to a vote. The Taft side lost it by a thumping 110-vote margin...
...Narrow Margin. Cops & robbers on a train that rattles along at an exciting express clip (TIME...