Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...counties (including normally Republican Essex and Union), smashed Republican hopes by running close on Forbes's heels in the other seven. He corralled the Negro vote, even though Forbes had told Negroes that they should vote Republican in return for the President's action at Little Rock. Meyner spread coattails broad enough to carry back to Trenton with him an additional Democratic state senator and 22 new assemblymen, making the assembly Democratic for the first time in two decades, with the strongest Democratic majority (42 to 18) since...
...last week: CJ In Pittsburgh (pop. 680,000), Mayor Dave Lawrence, 68, a Democratic boss who runs the wards and precincts with a clenched fist and welcomes civic redevelopment projects with an open hand (TIME, Nov. 4), ignored feeble Republican attempts to trip him on such issues as Little Rock and a local trolley strike (typically, both strikers and management came to Dave Lawrence's defense), rolled to a fourth term by the largest plurality (59,511) of his career. ¶ Mayor Richard C. Lee, another Democrat busy remodeling a city, won reelection in New Haven, Conn...
...Byrd-guns of Virginia's Democratic Party shot the Republican Party out of the sky in last week's gubernatorial election. Senator Harry Flood Byrd's machine, mobilized and primed by President Eisenhower's decision to send troops into Little Rock, called on the faithful for a demonstration of defiance to federal law. Result: an almost two-to-one victory for Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate J. Lindsay Almond over Republican State Senator Ted Dalton...
...culture seems very much American-oriented; "hot" jazz, "rock and roll," and American movies dominate. The only calypso one hears outside of the tourist traps comes off of Belafonte records. (This isn't quite true. Calypso is native to Trinidad and is heard at great length at the spring festival there when hundreds of of tents spring up and one master alternates with another in competition in composing these engaging ditties...
...main Republican hope in next year's elections is to win Congressional seats in Northern cities by emphasizing the party's stand on the Civil Rights Bill and on Little Rock. The results of last week's vote would seem to indicate the limited effectiveness of this appeal; both Meyner and Wagner strongly carry Negro districts. Northern Democrats have long been associated with the cause of civil rights, and even if on this issue the GOP seems stronger, to assume that the Negro votes solely on the civil rights issue is to insult his civic intelligence and disregard his economic...