Word: yarborough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...corner, the titleholder: U.S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough, 55, darling of the state's liberal Democrats ("Put the jam on the lower shelf where the little fellow can reach it"). Elected last year to fill out the unexpired term of Price Daniel, who left the Senate to run successfully for Governor, Ralph Yarborough now wants the full six-year term...
...hand, not all sided with Kennedy and Douglas. On the key motion to substitute Kennedy's broad proposals for Harry Byrd's limited aims. Kennedy lost Arizona's Carl Hayden. Alabama's Lister Hill and John Sparkman, Oklahoma Millionaire Robert Kerr and Texas' Ralph Yarborough...
With that, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Texas' Junior Senator Ralph Yarborough swung into action on Capitol Hill, asked Congress to help in curbing "uncontrolled" oil imports. Said Texan Yarborough: "The situation for our independent producers has become a one-way street leading to oblivion." Johnson announced that he had word that President Eisenhower himself would intervene in the case to curb oil imports "threatening national security...
...placed third. Second, with 291,106 votes, Democratic Congressman Martin Dies, a segregationist and onetime Red hunter, whose conservatism runs so deep that he had labeled Republican Hutcheson a "federal-righter." The combined Republican and conservative-Democrat vote gave Hutcheson and Dies about half a million votes, while Liberal Yarborough got 363,834 votes, 38% of the close to million-vote total. Yarborough had actually won with fewer votes than he had polled in any of his earlier, losing gubernatorial campaigns...
...results showed that 1) Texas Republicanism is still clearly in the minority, and 2) despite Liberal Yarborough's victory, conservatism is still the dominant political force in Texas. Editorialized the do-or-Dies Dallas Morning News: "Yarborough the liberal can no more win the 1958 senatorial nomination than he could in three unsuccessful tries for governor, unless Texas Democratic thinking changes materially...