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Narrow as it is, the Eisenhower margin in twelve polls sponsored by the CRIMSON represents the tenth Republican victory since the turn of the century. In 1912 Woodrow Wilson won against a combined field of Theodore Roosevelt '80 cluding Radcliffe--by a bare majority. and William Howard Taft, and in 1952 Stevenson carried the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eisenhower Carries Ballot By Slim 148 Vote Majority | 10/26/1956 | See Source »

...earlier Democratic win, coming in 1912 with singular accuracy in the light of national totals, gave Woodrow Wilson a plurality of 735 votes over Theodore Roosevelt '80 with 475 and William Howard Taft with 365. This seeming prejudice against Democrats characterized the University returns until...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: 7,500 to Cast Mock Ballots In Crime Poll | 10/23/1956 | See Source »

...informal debate before 50 members of the International Relations Club of the Newton College of the Sacred Heart, the two club presidents first concentrated their discussion on the topics of the farm slump, small business failures, the Taft-Hartley Law, and natural resources "giveaways." In the debate on foreign policy and the question period that followed, however, discussion centered around the possibility of stopping H-bomb tests exposions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adlai's Proposed H-Bomb Plan Dominates HYDC-HYRC Debate | 10/23/1956 | See Source »

...Swing to Ike. By 1951 unorthodox Leo Heogh was pushing for Eisenhower for President in a state where the Republican leaders were strong for Ohio's Senator Robert Taft. He had seen General Eisenhower in Europe during the war. "I was impressed by Ike because he asked questions," says Hoegh. "He wanted to find out what was on people's minds. And he had an open mind of his own." Hoegh was a key tactician in a group of younger Republicans who swung a majority of Iowa's delegates to Eisenhower on the first ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: Against the Anthills | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...Turner, Iowa farmer, onetime (1931-33) Iowa governor, strong 1952 Ike-man and lifetime Republican, who last month called for the resignation of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, shifted to Stevenson-Kefauver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Who's for Whom, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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