Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least publicized of all the elections might have the longest-lasting national effect, see box, Election Scorecard. ¶ Give an intimate account of the sort of political organization that changed the face of the political map, see MINNESOTA, Victory by Organization. ¶ Find Republicans who thought they saw a new Moses, see REPUBLICANS, And Then There Were...
...saw this trend to liberalism coming a long time ago, when they turned out Bob Tait. ¶Ohio Republican...
...between the Mississippi and the Rockies, Republicans lost eight House seats, two Senate places, at least two governorships (Nebraska is still in doubt). High on the list of causes: the political unpopularity of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Taking over in 1953, Benson inherited a farm-policy mess that saw prices slumping badly while the Government poured billions into the farm economy. Trying to reverse the policy of farm government-by-handout, Benson was blamed when the agricultural recession continued. By this year, when the farm economy dramatically improved (TIME, May 12), it was too late for Ezra Benson...
...result, the Dwight Eisenhower who led the Republican Party to power in 1952 saw the G.O.P. sink to its lowest ebb (see map) in decades this year. And perhaps the most significant effect of the 1958 election was that for all practical purposes, it ended the Eisenhower Crusade. President Eisenhower had failed in the task of remolding his party in his own winning image. Because of that failure, for the rest of his term he would have to fight hard merely to keep his accomplishments from being rolled back...
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...