Word: oregon
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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...
...governors, 27 were Democrats and 21 were Republicans before the election. Of the 30 state houses contested this year, 14 were Democratic and 16 Republican. The Republicans dumped Democrats in West Virginia. Ohio and New Mexico; the Democrats routed Republicans in Massachusetts. Iowa. Kansas, Oregon and Washington. Net Democratic gain: one. Still undecided at week's end: Rhode Island...
...national level, the Democratic Party proved in the 1956 election that it has great grass-roots strength. Items: the slightly strengthened congressional position, the successful battle for at least 15 statehouses. the increase in the number of state legislators in such Republican strongholds as South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, Oregon and California. The waning influence of its old-line, patronage-powered machines in the big cities, notably Chicago and New York, was offset by the work of aggressive "new look" (i.e., post-Truman) volunteers in California, Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Pennsylvania...
California-Bred. Now it was proper for Iowa to think of Pasadena. But when word came in from the West, the Hawkeyes learned that they faced no vacation. Out in San Francisco, Oregon State's Beavers skinned past Stanford's favored Indians, 20-19. Only last month, the Beavers had almost chewed up Iowa before losing a close one, 14-13. Last week they demonstrated that they had learned how to come from behind in the clutch...
Tutored by bulky (260 Ibs.) Tommy Prothro, once chief recruiter for U.C.L.A.'s Coach Red Sanders. Oregon State boasted nine California-bred bruisers on its first team. It was no surprise that they played Sanders' type of football: a power-packed single-wing offense that kept right on rolling after Stanford's sharpshooting passer, John Brodie, put the Indians out in front 19-7. Late in the third quarter, Oregon State completed a lovely 59-yd. pitch-and-run pass play of their own leading to a touchdown and, midway in the last quarter, went...