Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic bigwigs in Washington, eying the California results, predicted that in the November congressional elections the Democrats would improve their present 49-to-47 margin in the Senate by six to nine seats, would improve the present 233 to 198 in the House of Representatives by 30 to 50 seats. Eying 1960, states-rights-minded Southern Democrats got a special signal out of the Democratic prospects: if big Democratic years are ahead, they intend to fight for a veto power on the 1960 Democratic candidate. Republicans glumly talked of little more than cutting off their losses...
...voters went to the polls in the major U.S. primary election of 1958. Setting an off-year primary record, 64% of California's Republicans and 60% of the Democrats turned out. And by nightfall the big news was that California Democrats, traditionally nonpartisan types who dissipated their big margin in registration (currently 990,000) by voting for well-known Republicans in California's cross-filing primary system, this year voted the straight Democratic ticket with unity. Result: the biggest California Democratic vote in any nonpresidential primary year...
...Both Houses voted a 10% pay boost, retroactive to January, for more than 1,000,000 federal civil servants. Added annual cost: $542 million. <1 By a 12-1 margin, the Senate Labor Committee approved Jack Kennedy's labor-reform bill requiring unions to hold secret ballot elections at least once every five years, report to the Government on where the money comes from and goes. Kennedy managed to draft a bill that was both 1) hard-knuckled enough to win the indispensable endorsement of Arkansas' labor-investigating John Mc-Clellan, and 2) so kid-gloved that...
Though the opposition did not recognize it, they had just watched the third strike go by. It did not matter that the margin of victory was narrow-345,435 to 321,142. "In baseball" said Walter, "a win by 1-0 is as good...
Ernst finds this time margin so narrow that the flight was "extremely improbable," if not impossible. (Government investigators say Murphy was gone 8½ to nine hours-plenty of time.) Ernst offers a theory of his own: Murphy was a freelance pilot, subject to big temptations "to smuggle nylons, drugs, guns . . . people"; the destination of his secret flight was rebellious Cuba, not the Dominican Republic. Ernst's proof came from "confidential sources" in Dictator Fulgencio Batista's Cuba. To back up Batista (who got five planeloads of arms in March from Trujillo), Ernst solemnly presented an affidavit from...