Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RALPH J. WATKINS...
...RALPH W. B. READE...
Before Texas Democrats went to the polls one day last week, they witnessed one of the bitterest political campaigns in Texas' history. In the runoff primary for governor, between Governor Allan Shivers and Austin Lawyer Ralph Yarborough, the big issue was clear-cut: Yarborough, representing Democrats who stayed with the national party organization in 1952, charged that Shivers committed political treason by swinging Texas to Dwight Eisenhower...
...film script down to a sentimental skeleton. The original film had been aimed at the handkerchief trade; on TV the tear jerking scenes came as fast as in any soap opera. To compensate for his lack of mobility, Director Kulik borrowed heavily from Hollywood's sob expert, Ralph Edwards (This Is Your Life). Just like Edwards, the Lux show employed a tremulous, offstage voice to say such things as, "Yes, you came to New York, Jodie, to lose yourself in hard work . . . And then you ran away to England to forget . . ." Dorothy McGuire tried hard but was never able...
...points in political campaigns. When Florida's George Smathers (now a Senator) was running for Congress in 1946, he went through his district reading his opponent's voting record from CQ, and credits the publication with his victory. When Joe McCarthy recently charged that Senator Ralph Flanders voted less with the Republicans than any other member of the party, newsmen set the record straight with CQ figures...