Word: prescott
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...Dewey's bare 50% in 1948). From there on, the Republican Connecticut sweep was swift and devastating. At 9:30, Democratic Senator Bill Benton conceded the victory of Republican William Purtell and gloomily predicted a nationwide victory for Ike. Minutes later. Democrat A. A. Ribicoff conceded to Republican Prescott Bush in Connecticut's other Senate race...
...another. Recently appointed Senator William A. Purtell, a Hartford manufacturer, ran so far ahead of Senator William Benton, a onetime adman, that Benton conceded three hours after the polls closed. In the race for the second Senate seat (a four-year term to replace the late Brien McMahon), Prescott Bush, member of the same Wall Street brokerage firm as Averell Harriman, beat Representative Abraham Ribicoff, the best Democratic vote-getter in the state...
...take both. Republican Senator William Purtell, who was appointed to fill the late Brien McMahon's seat until the election, is running against Democratic Senator William Benton. Purtell is ahead. For the remainder of McMahon's term (four years), Democratic Representative A. A. Ribicoff and Republican Prescott Bush are in a neck & neck race...
...Donkey, by H. F. M. Prescott. Vivid, fictional chronicle of the 16th century Yorkshire rising against Henry VIII (TIME, Sept...
...double senatorial extravaganza is the result of the death this summer of Brian McMahon, Fair-Dealing senator from Norwalk. Running for the four-year term left by the death of McMahon are Democrat A. A. Ribicoff and Republican Prescott Bush. The regular six-year term is being contested by the incumbent Senator William Benton, a Democrat, and William Purtell, Republican. Also after the six-year seat are two splinter-party candidates who, in traditionally close Connecticut contests, may gain enough votes to decide the elections--far right Vivian Kellems and so called Socialist Jasper McLevy...