Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maryland. Two-term Governor Herbert Romulus O'Conor, who gave Senator George L. Radcliffe a sound beating in the Democratic primary, has a smooth-working machine, well-greased by patronage for this election. Governor O'Conor strums an anti-Russia serenade for Baltimore's big Catholic vote. His Republican opponent, Colonel David John Markey, a poor campaigner himself, will get much-needed help from Baltimore's popular Mayor Theodore R. McKeldin, now running for Governor. Best bet as of last week: O'Conor...
...Mexico. Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez made enemies when he beat Governor John Dempsey's machine in the primary. Now state jobholders have been given the word to "vote as you please," and many consider that a green light to vote for hurly-burly Major General Patrick Jay Hurley. He has a good chance in a closening race...
Washington. Republican Harry P. Cain, former mayor of Tacoma, threw a scare into Democrats by his aggressive speeches. So the Democrats threw Senator Warren Magnuson, their glamor boy and best vote-getter, into the campaign for Senator Hugh B. Mitchell. To raise Cain's chances, the G.O.P. then opened up its big guns on the liberal side: Harold Stassen and Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse. Outlook: very close...
...short, as of last week, the G.O.P. was far from sure of taking the Senate. But if labor and leftists, sulked, if the vote were light, and if voters generally took out their disgust with Harry Truman on Democratic candidates, then the G.O.P. could be a shoo...
Into Jefferson City, Mo. last week surged a motorcade of 350 Missouri veterans demanding a special session of the legislature to vote them a $400 cash bonus. When they reached the ornate capitol, square-chinned Governor Phil M. Donnelly invited them inside, sat them down on the hard marble floor. Then he gave them a piece of his mind...