Word: merwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost to a man, Democratic winners in the Midwest campaigned harder against Benson personally than against his policies. "I got up to 5-to-1 majorities in normally Republican rural areas," said Iowa's lone Incumbent Democratic Representative Merwin Coad, who increased his 1956 plurality of 198 to 16,000 last week. Yet, while attacking Benson, Coad, like a remarkable number of other Midwestern Democratic winners, is far from committed to an all-out reversal of Benson's policies. "I see a moderate reversal of the direction Benson was going in," said Coad. "By moderate reversal, I mean...
Senator Thomas Martin, will win back the seat held by Democrat Merwin Coad, winner in 1956 by precisely 198 votes out of 129,052 cast. But Republicans are having rough sledding in at least three other districts. In the Second (Cedar Rapids-Dubuque) district, veteran Henry O. Talle, ranking Republican on the House Banking and Currency Committee, carried only 51.3% of the district in 1956 against Democrat Leonard Wolf, who has been campaigning ever since. In the Fifth (Des Moines) district, Republican Paul Cunningham won by only 51.1% in 1956, is slightly favored over Democrat Neal Smith, who is hurt...
...Virgin Islands, one of the tiniest (132 sq. mi.) of U.S. territories, President Eisenhower last week nominated a new Governor and fellow Republican, John David Merwin. He is the youngest (36) and the first native-born islander of the eight civil Governors named since the U.S. bought the Virgins from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million...
...Lawyer Merwin comes from one of the four so-called "royal families" of St. Croix, largest of the islands. His great-greatgrandfather on the maternal side migrated from Ireland in the early 1800s; his paternal grandfather was a Connecticut Yankee who arrived in 1885. When John David was born in the family mansion, the Merwins owned one-sixth of St. Croix's 52,000 acres. Merwin had a cosmopolitan upbringing: grammar schooling in the British colony of Antigua; international law, briefly, at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico; a degree in economics...
With a predominantly (85%) Negro population, the Virgin Islands is race conscious; it has had three Negro Governors since 1946. But being white did not handicap Merwin; in 1954 he went to the Virgin Islands Senate with the largest popular vote given a Senator-at-large. By last December he took the No. 2 post in the administration as Government Secretary, showed a steady hand at finance, revamped the tax program and the Alcohol Control Board. Seven weeks ago, when Atlanta-born Negro Walter A. Gordon stepped out of the governorship after two years, eight months and into...