Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats went into the 1956 elections with a 49 to 47 edge in the U.S. Senate. For a while last week it appeared they would increase that margin. But South Dakota's wispy G.O.P. Senator Francis Case, after trailing Democrat Ken Holum for hours, finally pulled through. And in Kentucky next day came a narrow victory for Republican Thruston Morton over Assistant Senate Majority Leader Earle Clements (see below). That brought the Senate count right back to 49 to 47 for the Democrats...
...scattered islands of resistance developed. In Michigan, thanks to Democratic Governor Mennen Williams' solid lead over G.O.P. Candidate Albert E. Cobo, Stevenson was ahead in heavily unionized Dearborn and Detroit. In scattered upstate precincts of Michigan and Wisconsin, resentful farmers were whittling down the G.O.P.'s 1952 margin. Elsewhere Democratic bastions were toppling. Pennsylvania's Democratic Lackawanna County gave Ike an early edge. For the first time in 36 years New Jersey's Hudson County-the late Boss Hague's old bailiwick-went Republican...
...Clock. New England was as solid for the G.O.P. as the South had once been for the Democrats. Even in Democratic Boston Stevenson's lead was pared to 23,000 votes (v. his 68,000-vote margin in 1952), a fraction of the total he needed to counterbalance G.O.P. strength elsewhere in Massachusetts. Ike swept ahead in New Hampshire, seized a 36,000-vote lead in Rhode Island (which he later increased to nearly ten times his 1952 plurality). Bustling ahead in New York City, which the Democrats carried by some 350,000 votes in 1952, Ike was stitching...
...memory of the 1956 Democratic keynote speech. The answer seemed to be: until the last returns from the Coast. West Virginia came in for Eisenhower, voting Republican for the first time since going for Hoover against Smith in 1928. Los Angeles waited for San Francisco to record a slight margin for Stevenson (ascribed by West Coast commentators in part to Nixon's unpopularity there), then slapped it down with a smart plurality for Ike and Dick. With a jolt, South Carolina Democrats noted that they had carried the state for Stevenson only because Republicans (with 73,000) and independents...
...Division (1955 sales: about $129 million, triple the 1953 volume). Says Sayre: "The industry has been committing every sin in the book. Some of the giants have a policy of 'buying off' key markets. They have been moving appliances through big dealers who operate on a small margin. Small dealers have been the victims of big dealers and small markups...