Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge him with full responsibility for the actions of all Republicans." This line ran counter to the private convictions of many Southern Democrats. Snapped Georgia's Richard Russell: "Mr. Mitchell is perfectly entitled to his opinion." Texas' Lyndon Johnson, Senate minority leader, doggedly stuck to his own elect-Democrats-and-help-Eisenhower line. The truth was that most Southern Democrats thought Stevenson would have done better to talk about low farm prices and the state of the economy rather than call attention to party splits. Reason: the Democratic Party itself may be ripped wide open if the Supreme...
...South Carolina, Governor James Francis Byrnes, 74, who has spent 44 years in public offices ranging from court reporter to U.S. Secretary of State, announced that he is withdrawing from politics. Byrnes, who cannot succeed himself as governor, asked Democrats in his home county (Spartanburg) not to elect him as a delegate to the state convention this month...
...territories, they must pay taxes, but have no vote in Congress. Highway and school benefits that are automatically awarded to all states are given to them only through special legislation. Understandably they resent Presidential appointment of governor, judges, and other officials whom the citizens of the forty-eight states elect. Political bickering should not keep from them the rights they deserve as mature citizens...
...National Assembly of Free China is a sort of political stockholders' meeting. Comprised of delegates elected generally not from politics but from universities, business and the professions, it meets every six years to review the government's operations, make suggestions, and elect a president and vice president. Last week, meeting for the first time since they met on the mainland in 1948, 1,526 delegates gathered in Taipeh...
...President White and the management faction. Young won over Morris. Then the Dumaine group got a break. When American Woolen's board met last week, Director William Wardall, who had taken no part in the fight, resigned. With Morris now on their side, Dumaine & Co. were able to elect Bennett to fill the vacancy. That gave them a majority, and the new board forthwith chose as chairman Roy Young, 71, longtime banker and a director of American Woolen since 1947. 'The board's united now," said Dumaine gleefully. "Now we can do something about the company...