Word: winningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your May 18 story on whether a Roman Catholic can win: if only 47% of all voters are aware that Kennedy is a Catholic, it should be the patriotic duty of every newsmagazine to see they are made aware of it! I believe a Catholic President would show his loyalty to his faith by appointing fellow Catholics to high places in our Government just as the Catholic voters frankly admit they would jump the party line to vote for a Catholic...
...spur-of-the-moment party out to see the Washington Senators win a close one (7-6) from the Boston Red Sox. got two autographed baseballs (one after a homer) from Senator Slugger Harmon Killebrew to give to grandson David. Ike laughed at a photographer's suggestion that Press Secretary James Hagerty, a dedicated New York Yankee fan, ought to replace cellar-dwelling Yankee Manager Casey Stengel. Quipped the President: "He couldn't do much worse...
...achieve his goals will require every one of Charlie Halleck's gut-fighting talents. "Once you are in a war," he says, "the only thing to do is win it." To Indiana Republican Halleck, after his years of frustration, politics is the greatest, toughest war of all. He intends to win...
With Democrats favored to win in the July 28 general election, Inouye's step-down prevented a party-splitting, potentially ruinous primary battle that had been threatening since a self-declared "team" of septuagenarians set their misting sights on the Senate seats. The team: Oren E. (for Ethelbirt) Long, 70, onetime (1951-53) Governor of Hawaii; William H. Heen, 76, Chinese-American ex-president of the territorial senate (1954-58). Said Bill Heen in asserting his right to a place in the Senate: "I have given long service to the Democratic Party in Hawaii, and I have many friends...
...Anaconda could not overcome its reputation. Suspicious Montana readers automatically looked for the "copper collar" riveted around every story. Ironically, the policy of playing down company news prevented Anaconda from playing up its notable contributions to the state in its earnest postwar campaign to win friends, e.g., the $400,000 employees' club given to Butte. Circulation grew slowly; last year Anaconda's papers netted a paltry...