Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house of representatives went Democratic 111 to 99, and the state senate returned a bare Republican majority (27-23). Never before-not even when fun-loving George H. Earle rode the tidal crest of the New Deal wave in 1934 -had Democrats come so close to making a clean sweep in Harrisburg...
...congressional elections, the clean sweep stopped: the national pull of Dwight Eisenhower and the local hold of some G.O.P. county organizations was too great. Nevertheless, Pennsylvania will send three additional Democrats to Washington in January, and the Republican majority in the Pennsylvania delegation will be a slim...
...Reasons. What happened? There were several explanations, none of them adequate, all of them providing slivers of truth. Most pundits and politicos settled on unemployment as the major factor in the Democratic sweep. The U.S. Labor Department lists eight counties in Pennsylvania where unemployment is in the critical range of 10% or more of the working population. Some 377,000 Pennsylvanians are jobless; 120,000 have exhausted their unemployment compensation ($30 a week for 26 weeks); uncounted thousands more are what George Leader calls "underemployed," i.e., working less than 40 hours a week. A week before Election Day, a riot...
...Pittsburgh. Clark and Dilworth admired Leader's liberal views; Boss Green decided he had discovered Leader; Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence, who is also Democratic national committeeman, found him politically impeccable. Farmer Leader seemed an excellent choice to soften up the farm vote for a Democratic sweep in 1958. Thus, almost by default, George Leader was picked as a candidate. Everyone settled back with the complacent expectation that Leader would lose-everyone, that is, but the candidate...
Columnist DAVID LAWRENCE: There is a good prospect of a Republican sweep in 1956. The long-range trend has not departed from the Republicans and can be recovered when a popular personality is at the head of the ticket. It seems certain that Mr. Eisenhower will be drafted...