Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House, the Democratic victory was more decisive. Going into the election, the Democrats held 230 House seats (needed for control: 218). They picked up all their seats west of the Mississippi: one apiece in Iowa. Kansas. Missouri, South Dakota, Nevada and Montana; two apiece in Oregon and California. The Republicans gained one apiece in Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana. Michigan and Pennsylvania, two in New Jersey and West Virginia. Total: at least 233 Democratic, with three still in doubt...
...assistance, without it this time downed Democrat George P. Mahoney by 50,000 votes; Indiana's Homer E. Capehart easily won a third term over former Agriculture Secretary Claude R. Wickard; and Wisconsin's 72-year-old Alexander Wiley handily downed State Senator Henry W. Maier. In Nevada, after trailing part of the way through a nip-and-tuck battle with Cliff Young, Democratic Incumbent Alan Bible spurted ahead, eked out a breathless victory...
Montana: Ike by a reduced (from 51,181 in 1952) but comfortable margin. 4 Nevada: Odds are on Ike (gambling Nevada dislikes Gambling-Investigator Estes Kefauver). Republican Clifton Young is losing out in race against Democratic Senator Alan Bible...
...team of seven educators hired by the Nevada legislature to investigate the University of Nevada's high-handed President Minard Stout, whose attempt to have a professor fired for protesting against the lowering of admission requirements resulted in the resignation of six others (TIME, June 15, 1953), finally handed down its verdict. "A state university," said the committee, "is neither an army nor a factory; its president is neither a general nor a businessman. The lack of respect for the faculty under the present administration has not only impaired faculty morale and effectiveness, but has damaged the national reputation...
...England states-Maine and Vermont-had an average population loss of 1.2%; Arkansas lost 5.6%; Mississippi, 2.1%. The highest percentage gains: Alaska, 62.5% (to a total of 209,000); Nevada, 47.1% (235,000), Arizona, 34.3% (1,007,000). California had the largest number of new residents: 2,375,000 (total: 12,961,000); New York was second, with 1,191,000 (total: 16,021,000), Texas third, with 1,037,000 (total...