Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pittsburgh-because pockets of unemployment in Western Pennsylvania represent a danger to Republican candidates, particularly Senator James H. Duff. His newly announced campaign trip to the Midwest and Northwest in mid-October-with speeches planned in Minneapolis, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland-has a similar purpose. In Minnesota the Republican ticket is endangered by farm unrest; in Washington and Oregon he has given Arthur Langlie and Douglas McKay his backing for the Senate, and he feels honor bound to support them in their uphill races. But the President has shown little concern for candidates in trouble because of local party apathy...
...developed a unique campaign style that centers on Ohio's 40-odd county fairs; he has managed to make 30 of them so far this year. He avoids all connection with his state's Democratic organization, offers no help whatever to his running mates on the Democratic ticket, ducks all discussion of campaign issues. He pays his own way into the county fairs, wearing a five-year-old suit and a haircut that looks almost as old. At the Hardin County Fair last week he declined to sit on the officials' platform, turned down a chance...
Every time Michigan's hard-pressed Republican State Chairman John Feikens hears the Republicans called the rich man's party, he wonders, forlornly, what country and what planet the Democrats are talking about. Feikens' job is to defeat a Democratic ticket next month that is: 1) headed by Michigan's popular four-term Governor G. Mennen Williams, millionaire heir to a soap fortune; 2) seconded by Lieut. Governor Phil Hart, who married an automobile fortune; and 3) backed to the hilt by Walter Reuther's United Automobile Workers of America, whose 700,000 Michigan members...
...that were not enough, he added that Stevenson was allied with "Reactionaries." The topper came a few weeks ago when Truman spoke in defense of Alger Hiss. For these remarks, Truman's opponents say, he can never be forgiven, but can he ever again be useful to a Stevenson ticket...
...groups traced different campaign approaches. DeVore's group will work with the Cambridge City G.O.P. Committee, and wants to emphasize the national ticket. He said that a conference with other pro-Eisenhower groups would be "perfectly amenable" to Students for Eisenhower. He expected to concentrate on distributing literature and posters...