Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...payday, finally squeaked through by tapping its $50 million Veterans' Trust Fund and slapping nuisance taxes on beer, whisky, tobacco, etc. The fight damaged what Paul Bagwell calls "the heart of the image of Michigan," killed Soapy's hopes for a place on the 1960 National Democratic ticket, convinced him that it was time to shop for another...
...conventions. While Republican mossbacks shunned him, Bagwell became the heretic hero of liberal young Republicans, went on to head the state's Citizens for Eisenhower in 1954. He ran for auditor-general in 1956, lost by 32,000 votes (out of 3,000,000), bat led the G.O.P. ticket. Bagwell's surprising vote-drawing power-and a general shortage of Republicans brave enough to run against Soapy Williams-sewed up the G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination for him in 1958. He cut Soapy's 1956 margin of victory in half...
When Soapy decided to wash up and check out, the odds-on favorite of pollsters and pundits to succeed him was popular Secretary of State Jim Hare, who had led the Democratic ticket in 1958. But Hare was known as an independent-thinking cuss. The unions, in a spectacular exercise of political muscle, swung behind Swainson. On primary day, 70,000 Wayne County Democrats cast "bullet" votes for Swainson; i.e., they did not even bother to vote for the other 16 contested offices on the ballot. Swainson's statewide margin of victory: just under...
...Getter Democrat Lee Ackerman, 39, a Missouri-born real estate millionaire, is running a well-organized middle-of-the-road campaign against Republican Incumbent Paul Fannin, 53, wealthy Phoenix gas distributor. Zesty Democrat Ackerman could win unless Nixon carries Arizona by enough of a landslide to bring his ticket along with...
...arch-conservative publisher, Basil Brewer, was Massachusetts campaign manager for Robert Taft in his 1952 drive for the G.O.P. nomination; the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ("Kennedy offers the brighter hope of being able to evoke the burst of national spirit we shall require"). ¶ LIFE endorsed the Nixon-Lodge ticket. Domestically, LIFE praised Nixon as the one more apt to "maintain and advance the American Free Enterprise system." Weighing the candidates on foreign policy, LIFE found "the difference between the two candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded: "With Nixon and Lodge in charge of U.S. world policy...