Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a possibility that when the U.S. Senate convenes next year it will be divided 48 to 48-with the Vice President casting the deciding vote. There is a strong probability that G.O.P. Candidate Richard Nixon will be there to cast it, and that Dwight D. Eisenhower will once again be lodged at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue in the White House...
...accomplishments of the Herter Administration for which he can claim little personal credit. As Lieutenant Governor, Whittier spent four years campaigning for this election, attending an estimated 295 breakfasts, 1,150 luncheons, and 3,695 dinners, or two and a half dinners a day. At the same time, his Nixon-like campaign oratory has bristled with frequent free-swinging statements, such as his recent attack on Furcolo as the "most pious fraud ever to appear on a platform in Massachusetts...
Banners flowed forward into the spotlights: "Nous Sommes Madly for Adlai," "Adlai Likes Me," and "We Don't Want Nixon." The loudspeaker screamed "We won't be able to unload Adlai if you don't get back...
...duration of the campaign, apparently, Adlai Stevenson will be running against Dwight Eisenhower and not against Richard Nixon. For while he may still feel that Eisenhower is only a front for his Vice-President, or "heir apparent" as he terms him, now his addresses recognize that he has not convinced the country of this, and that while he continues to score Nixon, he must also attack Eisenhower if he is to retain any hope of victory...
...Senator Davis Elkins, has an advantage over most House candidates in her race against Democratic Incumbent Harley Staggers, 49. A Washington socialite with a West Virginia address, Mrs. Elkins has only to pick up her telephone to bring into the district such leading Republicans as Vice President Nixon, Seriate Republican Leader William Knowland and Secretary of Labor James Mitchell...