Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the votes were counted, U.S. Senator Robert Kerr, seeking re-election to his second term. was ahead of former Governor Roy Turner, but not far enough ahead to escape a runoff. Facing each other in a runoff for governor will be William O. Coe, Oklahoma City attorney, and Raymond Gary of Madill, president pro tem of the Oklahoma senate's last session. Willie Roberta Murray ran seventh in the field of 16 to succeed her husband, Governor Johnston Murray (in Oklahoma a governor may not succeed himself...
...were being bought in five counties. The Daily Oklahoman dismissed as a futile gesture "a cordon of bayonet-bearing troops around every voting precinct in five counties." But Murray was not impressed. If he hears of more vote-buying, he said, he will order the troops out for the runoff on July...
Confidently he entered the Democratic runoff-decisive in Florida-against State Senator LeRoy Collins, 45. Son of a circuit-riding Texas minister, Collins was rated the state's outstanding senator. He has a son at Annapolis and three young daughters with him at the Grove, a 129-year-old Tallahassee house built by his wife's great-grandfather, Richard Keith Call, governor of Florida Territory during most of the Second Seminole War (1835-42). A curly-haired six-footer, Collins looked good on TV and campaigned strenuously against Charley Johns's "muster of the vultures...
...trying to save the mid-term elections by screening off material issues and substituting warmed-over reds-in-government. It is all too reminiscent of the 1950 primary in North Carolina where Senator Frank Graham, having won the first primary by 53,000 votes, lost the runoff by 18,000 votes after the countryside had been flooded with handbills and whispers charging Graham with favoring "mingling of the races...
...Samuel Lubell said in The Future of American Politics, "The same 'better element' in the community who kept the racial lid on during the first primary let it blow in the runoff." The fact that the GOP "better element" has never been too effective in keeping the lid on hardly destroys the parallel; especially when the files of the Justice Department and even certain Canadian documents have been invoked to make the explosion more devastating than ever. No move or series of moves could do more to divert attention from the tasks at hand, to preclude a reasoned approach...