Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ripe for plucking. His age (78) is cited against him. and he is a pariah to the Democratic isolationists following ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler. D'Ewart, whose congressional district covers more than half the state, is well-known and well-liked. Nevertheless, chances are Montana will re-elect Murray, as it has since...
...decrees casually dispensed with the secret ballot. Instead, to save "unnecessary paper work," voters will go before election boards and orally proclaim their choices. First they will elect members of an assembly to write a new constitution...
...Cape Cod cottage in a new section of Waterville. Like most of his neighbors, Ed is a do-it-yourself repairman. Last year, in the midst of some intensive carpentry in his attic, he fell down the stairs, crushed a vertebra. At 40 the governor-elect is a slender, slightly stooped reed standing 6 ft. 4 in. He has curly brown hair, and a gentle, bemused manner that appeals especially to women. He describes himself as "neither a New Deal nor a Fair Deal Democrat, but a Maine Democrat." nonetheless keeps a watercolor portrait of a caped Franklin Roosevelt behind...
...that Joe Martin was the same genuine G.O.P. article who had been campaigning for more than four decades. And his pitch for Case was straight and hard. Said he: "You can't make a better contribution to Eisenhower, to the country, or to the Republican Party than to elect Cliff Case to the Senate this fall." Breathed Case: "Thank God for Joe Martin." On that point, at least, New Jersey Republicans seemed agreed...
...beautiful setting provided by history, the rulers of Red China last week played a parody of democracy. The occasion: the First National People's Congress, convened to "ratify" a 106-article constitution for Red China and then "elect" a chairman and vice chairman. From all over vast Communist China's 25 provinces, from far-off Tibet and Inner Mongolia, came 1,141 delegates, striding up steps of gleaming marble, past newly painted red pillars and into Peking's ancient Cherish Benevolence Hall...