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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tammany Boss Carmine DeSapio had predicted for him, catching new votes in long-standing Republican counties. In New York State, for the first time in 20 years, Democrats elected more mayors (29) than Republicans did (23). In Pittsburgh. Mayor David Leo Lawrence's fourth-term win established another record-breaking plurality. And in Republican New Jersey, where, to dike the Democratic tide, both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon added weight to the ardent campaigning of Republican Malcolm Forbes, Governor Robert Meyner swamped Forbes (see below...
...sweeter because it was a do-it-yourself kind of victory. He had firmly rejected outside aid, i.e., from Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson and Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy. Meyner billboards did not even worry about the word Democrat. In short, Bob Meyner did it on his record, his personality and a well-oiled, new-model state machine. Said he modestly: "Whatever outside political influence the New Jersey verdict may be deemed to have, I leave to others...
...willing" to assume the burdens of world leadership. Kennedy even touched on a Midwest sore point-the kind that led Kansas Democrats to favor-Estes Kefauver over Kennedy for Vice President in the 1956 convention: the farm issue: Said Kennedy, who must live down his mildly anti-farm belt record: "I think we are going to have to consider carefully some alternative programs because the present ones obviously aren't working." Its ears tuned to the Kennedy voice, the crowd fairly forgot its old wounds, smothered him with applause. Said Governor Docking confidently, of Kennedy's 1960 chances...
Finney has been the League leader in total offense and in passing all fall. At present his total-yards-gained figure stands at 563, and his passing record is 31 completions in 63 attempts...
...Brown the Crimson will be facing an opponent that is at the end of a rather disappointing season, reportedly "hungry" for victory. The Bruins were rated with the best in the Ivy League at the beginning of the year, but so far they have compiled a mediocre record of only three wins and four losses...