Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Advantage in Apathy. For Adlai Stevenson indifference is an advantage. He has the support of nearly all of Florida's top Democrats, from LeRoy Collins (who announced for Adlai but has not actively campaigned) on down. With a small vote, this organization support could be the margin of victory...
Rhee, of course, was reelected, but by the lowest margin of his career-barely more than half the vote. The late P. H. Shinicky polled an extraordinary ghost vote of nearly 1,500,000. But the real surprise of the ballot box was the defeat of Rhee's hand-picked vice presidential candidate by Rhee's bitter foe, husky, affable, 56-year-old Chang Myun, who anglicizes his name as John M. Chang. A onetime friend of Rhee's and former Korean Ambassador to Washington, U.S.-educated (Manhattan College) Chang thus became eligible to succeed Rhee...
With the score at three all on Friday, Lou Klein provided the slim margin of victory by edging his opponent on the nineteenth hole...
Teetering on the Border. With the regularity of the rollers on nearby Stinson Beach, good news came pouring in to Stevenson that day. In the District of Columbia primary he had clobbered Estes Kefauver by a two-to-one margin and won all six convention votes. In the Alabama primary he had won at least 20 of the 52 half-vote delegates (with 20 others uncommitted and the rest facing runoffs), and thus indicated that he can hold his own in the Deep South. In the Florida panhandle, Campaigner Kefauver, acting as though his shoes were really pinching...
...happy speculators: exports from Oct. 1 to March 31 rose nearly 1,000%, compared with the same period a year ago, while domestic producers crushed the beans at a record rate for oils and livestock meal. A trader who put up $180 at Christmas (at an 18? per bushel margin) to buy a futures contract to deliver 1,000 bushels four months later, pocketed a $997.50 profit at the beginning...