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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Race summary: Heavy winner; Odell (4:00 min.); 2nd, Boyden; 3rd, Nuzum; 4th, Lawrence; two Union Boat Club crews finished fifth and sixth. Lightweight winner, Putnam; 2nd, Lynch; 3rd, McKeeman; 4th, Hoffman...
Kansas: For the first time since it became a state, Kansas handed a second term to a Democratic Governor. The winner, Banker George Docking, shrewdly spent his first two years building a smooth-running donkey engine in this G.O.P. stronghold, won friends in thrifty Kansas by vetoing a state sales tax increase, relied on bounteous crops and rural content, neatly knocked down promising Republican Contender Clyde Reed...
...campaign's last minute, U.S. Senator Wayne Morse stuck his new (since 1955) Democratic nose in the governorship race to gig Republican Mark Hatfield by dredging up an ancient traffic charge and making Hatfield the villain. Until then, the Democratic candidate, Robert D. Holmes, was the predicted winner of a close election. In what was rated as a vote of outrage against Busybody Morse, Republican Hatfield took the statehouse...
Texas: On a solid tide of restored party fealty, Democrat Price Daniel was an easy winner...
Vermont: Predicted easy-winner Republican Robert T. Stafford bucked such a strong Democratic trend that his opponent, Bernard J. Leddy, may contest Stafford's winning margin (an unofficial 1,200 votes...