Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Nature's ill-tempered attack began in a soft and sneaky way with warm rains on the Sierra Nevada Mountains. But rain melted snow, snow fed creek, creek swelled river, and before a husband could stagger upstairs with the best of the furniture, there was swirling water in thousands of parlors in California and Nevada...
Republican Richard M. Nixon defeated Holen Gahagen Douglas in California by close to a 2 to 1 majority while Republican incumbent Eugene D. Milliken won over John A. Carrol in Colorado. Both campaigns returned pro-McCarran Act candidates. In Nevada, Patrick A. McCarran defeated Republican George E. Marshall in a close race.Senator ROBERT A. TAFT...
During a routinely optimistic election forecast last week, Republican Chairman Guy Gabrielson observed that in Nevada the party had high hopes of dethroning lordly, white-haired old (74) Senator Pat McCarran. A reporter asked why, and Gabrielson explained: "It's his New Deal voting record...
...over his words, joined in. For Democrat McCarran, during his 18 years in the Senate, had been about as fond of New and Fair Deal medicines as Carrie Nation was of bourbon. Before the 1938 primaries, when F.D.R. himself went inland to have his say on candidates, he visited Nevada, but haughtily ignored McCarran's candidacy for renomination; McCarran had angrily fought too many New Deal measures. Shaggy Pat won anyway, went back to the Senate to cry out against aid to embattled France and Britain ("One American boy, the son of an American mother, is worth more than...
...first he did not even bother to go back home and campaign; he won the Democratic renomination without trying. He is considered an odds-on favorite to defeat earnest Republican George Marshall, an ex-district judge, despite what Guy Gabrielson said. As Pat drove or flew from one Nevada town to another, it was easy to see why. He knew, and had gotten jobs, furloughs or information for, hundreds of the people he shook hands with. "How," asked one Nevada editor, "can you beat a man like that...