Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Meek, refusing to concede his opponent's election, said that some candidates conceded too quickly and cited Ives as an example. CBS took another look at the New York figures and found that Harriman's lead was down to 23,000-and was still dwindling as suburban and upstate returns came in. When the unofficial count was complete, 24 hours after the polls closed, Harriman was the winner by 9,657 votes, in a total vote of more than 5,000,000. It was the closest margin in a race for governor of New York in this century...
...Dwight Eisenhower was on the ticket, and anti-Trumanism was at fever pitch in Virginia. Republican Joel Broyhill won then by 322 votes in his Washington suburban district; this time he won by 4,500. Republican Richard Poff won his Lynchburg-Roanoke district by 2,000 in 1952; this year his margin was 13,000. Republican William Wampler won his Bristol district by 2,300 in 1952; this time he lost by 1,000 in the face of an all-out effort by the powerful Byrd organization. Even in Richmond, a relatively weak G.O.P. candidate came within 5,000 votes...
...clerks were abruptly called into small meetings and given the bad news. The famed old landmark will close early next year, the third major New York department store to go out of business in less than three years.* Wanamaker's said it plans to concentrate on metropolitan suburban areas, where it now has four stores...
...contrast to Farmer Christopher, Massachusetts' MacDonald is running in a suburban Boston district-and he certainly has the proper credentials: he is a onetime Harvard football captain; he was Senator John Kennedy's college roommate; he has a lovely wife, former movie actress Phyllis Brooks, who ladles out pink, nonalcoholic punch with complete grace and aplomb...
...sense, New Jersey is a Democratic state: it is heavily industrialized, has a substantial organized labor vote. In another sense, it is an Eisenhower Republican state: its suburban areas lying outside New York City and Philadelphia are populated largely by commuters-business and professional men. It has its McCarthy element, centered squarely in Democratic Hudson County (Jersey City), where Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague (now retired) built his machine. In recent years New Jersey has developed an aura of political corruption, although it is well-supplied with reformers...