Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congressional seats safely belongs to Republican E. Y. Berry, 56. In the other, Republican Governor Joe Foss is running against Incumbent Democratic Representative George McGovern, first Democrat to hold a South Dakota congressional seat in 18 years. The South Dakota vote is strictly agricultural: McGovern started ahead because Foss had lost friends by raising taxes; then rains brought a farm boom and Foss moved up; then an August drought came to McGovern's help. Result: McGovern appears to have a handy lead, rapping Ezra Benson while Republican Foss tries to avoid taking a stand one way or another...
...World War II (26 kills and the Medal of Honor), announced last September that he was retiring from politics, looked toward a comfortable job in private industry next January. Last week Joe Foss changed his mind, opened a campaign for the First District congressional seat held by George McGovern, South Dakota's first Democratic Congressman in 18 years. Reason: Foss was persuaded to run by 50 leading South Dakota Republicans headed by National Committeeman Axel Beck, who argued that Foss was the only Republican with a chance of beating Democrat McGovern and of staving off a statewide Democratic landslide...
Such is the changed political climate of South Dakota that even Joe Foss enters the race as an underdog to a Democrat. George McGovern, 35, himself a World War II B-24 pilot with a Distinguished Flying Cross, is a hard worker and a skilled orator, has since his election in 1956 entrenched his position. As governor, Joe Foss, blamed for rising real estate taxes, won 1956 re-election by only 25,000 votes -and the First District does not include his areas of greatest strength. But Foss's greatest handicap this year is the same that got George...
...John W. McGovern. 62, moved up from executive vice president to president of U.S. Rubber Co., No. 3 in the industry (behind Goodyear and Firestone, with 1956 sales of $901 million), replacing H. E. Humphreys Jr.. 56, who will keep his other position as chairman and chief executive. Philadelphia-born President McGovern never got to college, instead took a two-year course in accounting before starting in with U.S. Rubber as an accountant in 1920. Working up the ranks, he was control manager of the tire division by 1933. His big jump came in 1941, when he rapidly organized...
...committee praised McGovern's behavior toward the affair and added that "his conduct at all times has been motivated by the highest ideals...