Word: republicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harold Stassen, ex-Governor of Minnesota, ex-candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the U.S., ex-president of the University of Pennsylvania, ex-White House disarmament adviser, had wandered around Pennsylvania for weeks, trying to round up enough votes to win the G.O.P. primary for Governor and a second political wind. Last week came the primary test-and for Harold Stassen it was over almost before it began. Within three hours after the polls closed, he knew he had lost all of crucial Philadelphia's 58 wards, fallen behind by 88,000 votes to Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur...
That left Harold Stassen, once the hottest thing in Republican politics, out in the cold for what promised to be a tough general election. In November Republican McGonigle runs against Pittsburgh's powerful Democratic Mayor David Lawrence for Governor, and G.O.P. Representative Hugh Scott Jr. runs against incumbent Democratic Governor George Leader for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Republican Ed Martin. For those who thought Stassen was through with politics, Childe Harold had a word of warning: "When God ends my life," said he. "that's when my career will...
...jubilant crowd poured from the high school into Fontana Square, scarcely 50 yards from the U.S. embassy, greyclad Republican Guards on horseback charged with flashing sabers. Shots rang out; stones were flung; 50 people were injured. In Delgado's lusty campaigning last week. Portugal saw more mob violence and bloodshed than in all the previous 25 years of the paternal dictatorship of scholarly Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
Less than three months after their May-December marriage North Dakota's ancient (79), ailing Republican Congressman Usher L. Burdick tired of wife No. 3, his pretty, thirtyish former secretary Jean Rodgers. In an annulment suit filed in Fargo, N.D. by Burdick's lawyer son, the Congressman huffed that Jean "had no intention of consummating the marriage." The bride replied by asking a Washington court for $100 a week separate maintenance...
Boston editors are quick to admit their faults, but they put the blame on the old bugaboo of competition. With a population of more than 2,300,000, metropolitan Boston has six dailies: the staunchly Republican morning Herald (circ. 204,395) and evening Traveler (circ. 186,306) of bustling, bumptious Publisher Robert Choate; the morning Record (circ. 411,971) and evening American (circ. 176,318), both Hearst tabloids; the fusty, fence-straddling morning (circ. 225,162) and evening (149,070) Globes...