Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Along the moonlit path, not everything came up roses. By and large, the editorial cartoonists managed to keep their hearts, went on grinding out the mocking, faintly derisive message that is, after all, their stock in trade (see cuts). And from some quarters came harsh words for the President-elect. Principally, they fell around the controversial appointment of Kennedy's brother Bobby, 35, as U.S. Attorney General. Among the dissenters were the liberal New Republic and Nation magazines. The New Republic felt that the Department of Justice "should be kept as free as possible from the suspicion of political...
...Wyoming, after the death of Republican Keith Thomson, who had just been elected to the U.S. Senate, Wyoming's Democratic Governor John Joseph Hickey resigned from his own office, was appointed by the state's Democratic secretary of state Jack Gage (who succeeded him as Governor) to serve in Thomson's stead for a Senate term of two years. "Thus," said Lawrence, "the majority of the people of Wyoming, who elected a Republican to the United States Senate, have been deprived of a Senator of their own party and even of the chance to elect one until...
...Massachusetts, President-elect Kennedy resigned his U.S. Senate seat before the end of the year so that Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo, who had been defeated last November by Republican John A. Volpe, could appoint a Kennedy pal, Benjamin A. Smith, as Kennedy's interim Senate successor. "By resigning before Jan. 1," wrote Lawrence, "Senator Kennedy prevented the Republican Governor from making the appointment. This kind of political maneuvering is not novel, but it doesn't erase the fact that a successor to Senator Kennedy cannot be voted on now for two years...
...special election has been set for April to elect Johnson's successor. The interim appointee, Dallas Multimillionaire William A. Blakley, will serve only until then-unless Blakley, who is standing for Johnson's seat, wins the special election...
...Texas (24,993 students) has yet to fill the order, but under Chancellor Logan Wilson it has come closer than at any time in its 77 years. Now Wilson, 53, is turning over the rest of the job to one of the liveliest experimenters in U.S. education, new Chancellor-elect Harry Huntt Ransom...