Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elect for Christ. The Brunk brothers have been having that kind of success almost from the day they started. Neither had ever done much preaching, but both had been thinking hard about it. And they were sure that their audiences would not forget them easily: George, 40, weighs 240 Ibs. and stands 6 ft. 4½ in.; Lawrence, five years younger, is an inch taller and weighs...
Black Eye. On the picket lines there was some grumbling last week because Murray had held out so long on the union shop. But he had a pressing reason: he wanted to get a union shop before the 1952 election. Now that the pattern of Government intervention in labor disputes is so thoroughly established, Murray feels that he needs a union shop to protect his gains in case an unfavorable Government climate may lie ahead. "We're stronger than ever before," crowed one C.I.O. executive after the settlement. "Now let them elect two Eisenhowers...
Basic Democratic strategy is to carry the "sure" Democratic states (i.e., those states that have not gone Republican in the last four presidential elections, which include the South plus Arizona, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Utah, with a total of 190 electoral votes), and add to them New York (45) and California (32). That would make a total of 267 in the electoral college, or one more than necessary to elect a President...
...Eisenhower's field general, chiefly responsible for the conduct of the presidential campaign. In a sense-making rules change, the Republicans expanded the national committee to include-in addition to one committeeman and committeewoman from each state-all state G.O.P. chairmen whose states go Republican in a presidential election, or elect a Republican governor, or send a G.O.P. majority to Congress. This change gave Summerfield a 138-member national committee, the largest in G.O.P. history...
...laws of the church, ruled Judge Emerich B. Freed, "clearly [give] Americans of Rumanian ancestry the right to elect their own bishop." It was a victory for Cleveland's Dr. Viorel Trifa, who was elected bishop by a majority of the church's parishes last year, and for the Very Rev. John Trutza, president of the Episcopate's council. Said Father Trutza: "Our fight was one of Rumanian-American citizens to establish by law their complete freedom from the threat of foreign Communist influence...