Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Collier's magazine endorsed Ike (as it did in 1952) and urged its readers to help re-elect...
...there actually "millions" of women voters who will base their affiliations on photographs of the "family group" that may inhabit the White House next year? If there are, I suggest that we elect Pappy Yokum, and install Mammy Yokum, Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae and Honest Abe in the White House. They meet every requirement: typically American, non-Ivy League and quite "natural...
This plan works well when it is intended to prevent block-voting, by national-origin or religious groups, or even by large fraternity groups. No such groups exist here, and the plan effectively solves a non-existent problem. The main effect it can have is to elect the big-name football player to the class committee if he is put down as a ninth choice and works...
...states that will elect governors during the national elections next month, a myriad of little grouches and grievances and impressions form an important part of the political picture. This is particularly true when an incumbent governor such as Leo Hoegh is seeking reelection. National, state and local issues intertwine and conflict and complicate one another (last week staunch Eisenhower Republican Hoegh. convinced that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson is a local political liability, kept far away when Benson visited Iowa). At times, issues that logically should help the candidate are fatal. In some cases a whole collection of political...
...after the election, the government announced, without any accurate count of the votes, that it had won all 56 seats in the constituent assembly, to convene Nov. 1. Its first act will be to elect Dictator Lozano President of Honduras for six years, with General Abraham Williams Calderon, 62, cigar-chomping leader of the P.U.N. as First Vice President...