Word: unseating
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...South Dakotans handed Republican Karl Mundt, 60, a political prize they have not bestowed in 30 years: a third term in the Senate. Mundt encountered stern competition from onetime History Professor (Dakota Wesleyan University) and two-time Congressman George McGovern, 38, who banked on rural discontent this year to unseat Mundt...
...California Democrats Dalip S. Saund, the only Hindu in Congress (he was born in Amritsar, India, is a naturalized American), and Jimmy Roosevelt were both reelected. Rudd Brown, granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan, failed in her second attempt to unseat Republican Edgar W. Hiestand...
...Statler Hotel headquarters Thomas J. O'Connor conceded to Senator Leverett Saltonstall about midnight election night. For the 35-year-old mayor of Springfield who tried to unseat the man who surely now is recognized as a phenomenon in Massachusetts politics it was a disappointing end to a campaign that never quite got off the ground. The energy and the ability of the man were there, but the organization and planning and money that go into running for office was missing. O'Connor, though a loser, is a fresh face on the tired political scene in the Bay State...
...carried Boston in the primary and attracted the votes of several ethnic groups previously considered Furcolo property. Then, as the Saltonstall camp discarded files and files on the Governor's vulnerable record in office and as some state reisdents rejoiced over Furcolo's defeat, O'Connor set out to unseat "Salty," the senior senator whose devotional following bewilders many...
...United Nations must bring economic sanctions against The Union of South Africa to unseat the Nationalist party, Oliver Tambo, Deputy President of the African National Congress, told the Quincy House Africa Forum last night...