In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

With Eisenhower headed for another landslide, few Democrats wanted the 1956 nomination.

The Democrats followed suit in 1956, with a presidential primary debate between Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver.

From 1950 to 1956, Arnold was elected minister president for North Rhine-Westphalia twice again, governing with the help of conservative parties and the Free Democrats.

All Italian parties had a large popular membership ( the Communists more than two million members in 1956, the Christian Democrats almost the same by the early 1970s ), recruited from organizations such as Catholic Action, cooperatives, and trade unions.

Peter Richard Caruana, QC ( born 15 October 1956 ) is a Gibraltarian politician, leader of the Gibraltar Social Democrats ( GSD ) and former Chief Minister of Gibraltar holding office from, 1996 to 2011.

The winner in New Hampshire has not always gone on to win their party's nomination, as demonstrated by Republicans Harold Stassen in 1948, Henry Cabot Lodge in 1964, Pat Buchanan in 1996, and John McCain in 2000 and Democrats Estes Kefauver in 1952 and 1956, Paul Tsongas in 1992, and Hillary Clinton in 2008.

In 1956, when Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower was the incumbent, the Democrats went first, and the party out of power has gone first ever since.

For most of its history up until its merger with the NPL, the Democratic Party was a distant competitor for votes ; between the founding of the state and 1956, just 3 out of 24 governors: John Burke, Thomas H. Moodie, and John Moses were Democrats.

The 4th has not supported the official Democratic presidential candidate since 1956 ( when the Democrats nominated Adlai Stevenson ).

Bender did however join with two fellow Republicans and three Democrats in voting in avor of a motion to adjourn for five minutes in late July 1956 that amounted to a vote for getting the civil rights act to the floor and also at some level a rebellion against the prerogatives of party leaders.

Leung Kwok-hung ( born 27 March 1956 in Hong Kong ), also known as Long Hair (), is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong ( representing the New Territories East constituency ), a founding member of the League of Social Democrats and a democratic political activist.

Though Phillips had endorsed Adlai E. Stevenson for president in 1956 against the Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower and Kennedy over Nixon in 1960, he left the Democrats in 1963 to run for governor as the Republican nominee in a bid to succeed the term-limited Ross Barnett, who had fought the desegregation in 1962 of the University of Mississippi.

Margarita Starkevičiūtė ( born March 15, 1956 in Yeniseysk, Russia ) is a Lithuanian politician and Member of the European Parliament ( 2004-2009 ) for the Liberal and Centre Union ; part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

** United States House of Representatives elections, 1956: Republicans lost a net of two seats to the majority Democrats.

Liz O ' Donnell ( born 1 July 1956 ) is a former Irish Progressive Democrats politician.

Gijs M. de Vries ( born 22 February 1956 in New York ) is a Dutch Democrats 66 ( D66 ) politician.

1945 ), San Diego State College ( M. A., 1952 ) and Columbia University ( Ph. D., 1956 ), and did his doctoral thesis on the Thematic Apperception Test.

From 1956 through 1958, he did his postdoctoral research at the University of London, Institute of Psychiatry.

The heavy smog in the days before the Clean Air Act 1956 did little to help his health about which he was reticent, keeping clear of medical attention.

Amongst these measures included the universalization of old-age pensions for all Canadians aged seventy and above ( 1951 ), the introduction of old age assistance for needy Canadians aged sixty-five and above ( 1951 ), the introduction of allowances for the blind ( 1951 ) and the disabled ( 1954 ), amendments to the National Housing Act ( 1954 ) which provided federal government financing to non-profit organisations as well as the provinces for the renovation or construction of hostels or housing for students, the disabled, the elderly, and families on low incomes, and unemployment assistance ( 1956 ) for unemployed employables on welfare who had exhausted ( or did not qualify for ) unemployment insurance benefits.

They did not win another league title until 1956, aided by a number of future Pro Football Hall of Fame players such as running back Frank Gifford, linebacker Sam Huff, and offensive tackle Roosevelt Brown, as well as all-pro running back Alex Webster.

On 27 October 1956 the Saar Treaty declared that Saarland should be allowed to join the Federal Republic of Germany, which it did on 1 January 1957.

Nixon was also the first Vice President to assume temporary control of the executive branch, which he did after Eisenhower suffered a heart attack on September 24, 1955, ileitis in June 1956, and a stroke in November 1957.

Before the Beatles, John Lennon and Paul McCartney's band, The Quarrymen, featured a tea-chest bass, as did many young bands around 1956.

After October 1956 four books written by Gombrowicz appeared in Poland and they brought him great renown despite the fact that the authorities did not allow the publication of Dziennik ( Diary ).

Renfrew was educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire ( where one of the houses is named after him ) and from 1956 to 1958 did National Service in the Royal Air Force.

This is the first time the Americans have swept a Winter Olympic event since the men's figure skaters did in 1956.

Only after the Khrushchev Thaw period of 1956 did healthcare networks start to stabilise.

Two early examples are the " vapourization " of " unpersons " in George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (" He did not exist ; he never existed "); and the reference to the Egyptian practice in the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments, in which the Pharaoh Seti orders the name of Moses be struck from every building and never mentioned by anyone.

O ' Brien's story ideas for Gwangi and Valley of the Mist were developed into Edward Nassour and Ismael Rodríguez's The Beast of Hollow Mountain ( also 1956 ) but he did not work on the film's effects, which were the first to combine stop-motion and live-action in a colour film.

O ' Brien wrote the script for an earlier version of the story which was released as The Beast of Hollow Mountain ( US 1956 ), but O ' Brien did not handle the effects for that movie.

Costello's government did have some success with Ireland becoming a member of the United Nations in 1955, and a highly successful visit to the United States in 1956, which began the custom by which the Taoiseach visits the White House each St. Patrick's Day.

He did come out of retirement for a 1998 miniseries version of one of his most famous films, Moby Dick, portraying Father Mapple ( played by Orson Welles in the 1956 version ), with Patrick Stewart as Captain Ahab, the role Peck played in the earlier film.

The established NSC process was used when the question involved a policy debate between departments with strongly held, contending positions, as it did in the case of the debate between the Departments of State and Defense in 1956 / 1957 over whether to introduce a more modern generation of weapons into Korea, where it focused debate and produced the necessary agreed-upon decision after discussion of three draft policy papers.

On 20 September 1956, von Braun and his team did launch a Jupiter-C that was capable of putting a satellite into orbit, however the launch was used only as a suborbital test of nose cone reentry technology.

The catastrophic frost of the winter of 1956 damaged the olive trees, and the olive-growing regions did not recover until the late 1980s.

Presley agreed to record it, and did so on January 10, 1956 in a session that featured his band, The Blue Moon Boys, as well as guitarist Chet Atkins and pianist Floyd Cramer.

Anastasia, a musical remake of the 1956 film with Ingrid Bergman, did far better than any Bluth film since All Dogs Go To Heaven, but the 2000 release of Titan A. E., a film far different from the ones Bluth had been making up until then, was a flop.

Drummer Jo Jones, who recorded a 1956 trio session with Tatum and bassist Red Callender is quoted as quipping, " I didn't even play on that session [...] all I did was listen.

In 1956, Sparkman was one of 82 representatives and 19 senators who signed the Southern Manifesto in opposition to the 1954 U. S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education and racial integration.