Word: week
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taft on the list of targets for 1950, were sure they could beat him with either of two candidates. One was Colorado Governor William Lee Knous (rhymes with mouse), a lanky, homespun former mining-camp lawyer. If Knous entered the race, the conservative, Republican-tinged Denver Post reported last week (and if the results of a statewide poll held true), 65% of Colorado's voters would vote for a change; only 27% wanted to keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats had another odds-on favorite: Denver's Congressman...
...overly concerned by the pollsters findings, Millikin stoutly predicted that "any Republican candidate for the Senate in Colorado will win ... in 1950." But he was worried enough to take a tip from Ohio's Taft. Last week Gene Millikin was off on a two-week tour, renewing old friendships and cultivating new votes in his home state...
...Republican Party's strategy committee huddled in Chicago last week to devise a strategy for the 1950 congressional campaign, and perhaps even the presidential race of 1952. The strategy: 1) immobilize the party's moderates and liberals, 2) uncompromising opposition to everything the Democrats stand...
That was the lesson which Republican Governor Alfred Driscoll of New Jersey read to his party colleagues last month when he won one of the few Republican victories in 1949 (TIME, Nov. 21). The lesson was read again last week by New York's independent-minded Senator Irving Ives...
...Voice on the Phone. One night last week the telephone rang in Jim Glynn's well-appointed Washington apartment. It was a newspaper photographer asking for his picture. "What' for?" Jim asked. "Maybe you don't know it," said the photographer, "but you've just been indicted, mister...