Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come out of the 84th, since North Carolina's Graham Barden, a staunch Taft-Hartley man, will be chairman of the House Labor Committee. And there is little chance of anyone pushing tax reduction past Virginia's Senator Byrd until Government spending is sharply cut-a prospect that is even dimmer than it was before the election...
...democrat Averell Harriman to the governor's chair, is no calamity, for it means the defeat of Thomas E. Dewey, the evil influence in the Republican Party for ten years. Ives was Dewey's hand-picked candidate. The foundering of the Dewey machine opens up the healthy prospect that the Pawling Machiavelli will not come to the 1956 Republican Convention with New York's 96 delegates in his pocket for the fourth time...
Columnist DAVID LAWRENCE: There is a good prospect of a Republican sweep in 1956. The long-range trend has not departed from the Republicans and can be recovered when a popular personality is at the head of the ticket. It seems certain that Mr. Eisenhower will be drafted...
...prospect appeared slim last night...
...other prominent New York casualty was Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., who lost his race for attorney-general by about 170,000 votes. Undoubtedly he had something less than an ardent desire to be attorney-general of the state and probably would have been rather distressed at the prospect of actually serving. His motives in taking the nomination seem to have had a slight touch of Machiavellianism. He apparently accepted it with the expectation that even if the whole ticket lost, he could decisively outrun the other Democratic candidates and so win recognition as the strongest vote-getter in the state...