Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defense budget, pointedly advised $100-a-plate guests at a Republican fund-raising dinner in Milwaukee to look over their shoulders and see if the voters were still there with them. "As a tip in this regard," he said, "I would like to remind you of the great popular vote that President Eisenhower received...
...right wing of the Republican Party now has 1) its issue, 2) its strategy, 3) its candidate for 1960. The issue: Government economy as a popular expression of a growing conservatism. The strategy: to take over the party after showing strength in the 1958 elections. (Such Old Guardsmen as Indiana's Senator Bill Jenner and Nevada's Senator "Molly" Malone appear safe for reelection, while some Eisenhower Republicans are by no means sure bets...
Eisenhower himself carried all 11 Western states, but while his portion of the popular vote was rising in the country as a whole from 55.1 percent in the 1952 election to 57.3 percent in '56, it dropped in the West from 57.3 percent to 56.3 percent. The West was the only region in the country which like Ike less after four years. The President's decline was most marked in Idaho and Oregon, in both of which his percentage of the popular vote slipped about five percent...
...Meade Alcorn, predicted at the Salt Lake conference that the Republicans would win all seven governorships, eight new House seats and one Senate seat in 1958. He did not specify how this would be done. Of the eight Senate seats, five are currently held by Republicans and three by popular Democrats, Mansfield of Montana, Chavez of New Mexico, and Jackson of Washington. Thirty of the region's 53 House seats are in California, which has shown marked signs of Democratic growth in the past few years...
...other place in town-Folk Singers Burl Ives and Richard Dyer-Bennet. Comics Wally Cox and Roger Price, Singers Eartha Kitt and Pearl Bailey. It was the Vanguard that sent Harry Belafonte, a run-of-the-scale crooner six years ago, on his way to being the most popular balladeer of his day. But last week the venerable Vanguard reluctantly conceded that, like many another Manhattan nightclub, it had lost most of its old audience; in June it will go after a different clientele by reopening as a jazz-flavored "music room...