Word: elected
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...giving "national power to people who are responsible to a limited constituency; Wilbur Mills, one of the most able men in Congress, is not chairman for Little Rock, but for Los Angeles and Long Beach and Prescott, Ariz." Udall has proposed a plan for the majority-party caucus to elect committee chairmen from among the three senior members on each committee, and by secret ballot. In sum, it may well be necessary to drop or at least modify the seniority system in order to encourage more legislators to develop expertise, with the expectation of gaining influence sooner...
...once liberal city has become increasingly conservative over the past eight years as many white Catholics have retained their Democratic registration but have deserted the party to vote for conservative or Republican candidates. There is little hope that the city will elect a liberal such as Lindsay in the 1973 mayoralty election. At this writing, it is doubtful that he will seek re-election...
...Strauss's corner to begin with; others are now coming around. Says Ted Van Dyk, who formulated issues for McGovern: "Strauss means it when he says that he's no ideologue. He's uncomfortable when discussion gets beyond the fact that it's better to elect a Democrat than a Republican." Reflecting on the Strauss victory, Journalist Stephen Schlesinger, son of Historian Arthur remarks: "Maybe the most important story here is that the McGovernites have grown up. A few months ago, we would have been wailing over something like this...
Died. Neilia Biden, 30, wife of U.S. Senator-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., Delaware Democrat who last November defeated Incumbent J. Caleb Boggs to become at 29 the second youngest man ever elected to the U.S. Senate; and their 18-month-old daughter; in an automobile accident; in Hockessin...
...queens to be, a natural Tory. Thus she ignored the Chartist riots of 1839, largely because no minister could persuade her that the rabble mattered. Albert and Victoria concurred on one political principle, that a sovereign's duty was to save "her" people from the blunders of their elect ed representatives. By custom, the Queen ruled her consort. In practice he eventually tamed and directed her. "I treasured up everything I heard," she wrote, "kept every letter in a box to tell & show him, & was always so vexed & nervous if I had any foolish draft or dis patch...