Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scoop. In Morristown, N.J., a headline in the Record called attention to a trend: MARRIAGES WANE, BIRTHS FOLLOW...
...Democrats, only rarely did they campaign as full-fledged liberals. Part of their success unquestionably came from the moderate congressional record they had written under Texans Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn. During the campaign, when President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon flailed at the Democrats as radicals, the near-unanimous Democratic reply was "Who? Me?" Few if any farm-belt Democrats campaigned for a return to Henry Wallace's Milk for Hottentots days or for the Truman Administration's Brannan Plan. Few marched to victory as all-out defenders of labor faith; indeed the great majority argued...
...another sense that the presidential political weakness was even more hurtful to Republicans. In fact, Dwight Eisenhower wrote a good, constructive record in 1958. Yet the widespread impression remained of a dispirited, drifting Administration. That impression first took real form back in 1957, when Ike hemmed, hawed and refused to crack down on Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's forecasts of a hair-curling depression. It persisted in 1958, when the President delayed for months getting rid of Sherman Adams because "I need him." Again, even while Ike fought wisely and successfully at bringing the U.S. out of recession without...
Rearguard Tone. Ike's voice rang with conviction, and it was understandable that, faced with a peacetime-record deficit of $10 billion to $12 billion, he saw real peril for the U.S. in any trend toward freer spending. But his all-out stress on economy had a rearguard, negative tone that was unfair to his Administration's positive achievements...
...dark horse is, of course, Pennsylvania. The Quakers are in fourth place with an ordinary 3-2 record, but convincing victories over Harvard and Yale the last two Saturdays led Coach John Yovicsin to pronounce them "the most improved team in the league." Considering that they lost to Dartmouth and Princeton by a total of only seven points earlier in the year, the Philadelphians may now be the strongest team around; Cornell will be in for a rugged time Thanksgiving...