Word: millard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maryland's Democratic senatorial primary last May, former four-term U.S. Senator Millard Tydings, 66, beat Perennial Candidate George Mahoney by 6,000 votes and won the right to seek revenge on John Marshall Butler, who had toppled him from the Senate in 1950. But Tydings was laid low by a serious attack of shingles, and had to withdraw from the race (TIME, Aug. 27). Gathered last week to select a new candidate, the Democratic State Central Committee turned aside a bid by Tydings' wife Eleanor, 52, and chose the man her husband had defeated in the primary...
Maryland. Now that Democrat Millard Tydings has dropped out of the field (TIME, Aug. 27), lackluster Republican Senator John Marshall Butler has the right of way. Last week Baltimore's Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, Maryland's Democratic kingpin, sifted through the roster for a glad Tydings substitute, listed as one contender none other than Millard Tydings's wife, Society Matron Eleanor Davies Tydings...
...flying Democrats politicked at a national level last week, local leaders attending the Chicago convention were also busy with their own problems. A TIME correspondent, prowling a hotel lobby, overheard this conversation between Baltimore's broad and boisterous Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro and another Maryland delegate. Subject: Millard Tydings, hand-picked last spring to battle Republican John Marshall Butler for his old Senate seat, since hospitalized with a serious attack of shingles...
...Wilhite, who was a key manager in U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland's campaign, to help Stevenson's cause; they gave wide circulation to a newspaper editorial that branded Kefauver as a "leftwing integrationist" and a "sycophant" for the Negro vote. As Florida's ex-Governor Millard Caldwell put it with some approval, they sold Stevenson as a "more conservative person than Senator Kefauver...
Although Maryland's Millard E. Tydings, making a comeback try for his old Senate seat (24 years, 1926-50), defeated George P. Mahoney by a narrow 6,000 votes in the state's tightest senatorial primary (TIME, May 21), Mahoney won more state convention delegates. Last week, when convention time came in Baltimore, the Mahoneyites with relish and in grim retribution slashed Tydings' backers to ribbons...