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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jubilant Democrats, to whom Millikin ranks only slightly below Ohio's Robert Taft on the list of targets for 1950, were sure they could beat him with either of two candidates. One was Colorado Governor William Lee Knous (rhymes with mouse), a lanky, homespun former mining-camp lawyer. If Knous entered the race, the conservative, Republican-tinged Denver Post reported last week (and if the results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Broken Fences | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...overly concerned by the pollsters findings, Millikin stoutly predicted that "any Republican candidate for the Senate in Colorado will win ... in 1950." But he was worried enough to take a tip from Ohio's Taft. Last week Gene Millikin was off on a two-week tour, renewing old friendships and cultivating new votes in his home state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Broken Fences | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...C.I.O., which has frequently demanded a look at a company's balance sheet, last week for the first time disclosed its own, as required by the Taft-Hartley Act. In the C.I.O. News, the union said that on Sept. 30 it had a net worth of $1,480,313, "about 25? for each C.I.O. union member" in the U.S. On this basis, C.I.O. membership was 5,900,000. The union listed its year's income at $3,040,390, and expenditures at $2,883,215. It set forth that its net worth had increased $157,175 since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: A Quarter Apiece | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...think it accomplished just what I set out to do," said Republican Taft last week in sum-up. "Rather better than I thought. My general impression is that the people who are thinking at all are overwhelmingly on the conservative side. I talked with a lot of workmen and many of them don't have views one way or the other. Certainly they are not concerned about the Taft-Hartley law . . . There is no grass-roots objection, it all comes from the top." After one meeting, Taft remarked: "I guess they don't hate me as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Senator Rests | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Whether they liked his views or not, voters could tell where Taft stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Senator Rests | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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