Word: elected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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True Passion. Daley not only knew how to run a political machine (a word he hated), he also had the rare knack of governing a city. "Chicago works" became a commonplace. Said Republican Governor-elect Jim Thompson, who as U.S. Attorney sent many Daley men to prison: "We lost in democracy, but we went ahead and became a great city...
...first popular test of Fukuda's policies and of whether he has revived the L.D.P. will come in July, when the Japanese elect a new upper house. The L.D.P. majority there is now a razor-thin one seat, and the party may lose control-unless Fukuda by his actions regains some of that faded popularity...
...Linowitz report is certain to get the President-elect's attention. Not only does the 20-member commission include such Carter intimates as W. Michael Blumenthal, the future Secretary of the Treasury, and Columbia Professor of Law and International Organization Richard N. Gardner, but its findings were delivered to the President elect by Linowitz's friend Cyrus Vance...
...sticking, despite heavy political flak. Mill executives say that the real test of whether the boosts will last in the market will not come until January. But the increases have survived criticism by President Ford's Council on Wage and Price Stability and publicly voiced "concern" by President-elect Jimmy Carter...
...right-wing edge of politics. In 1974, during a Campus Crusade campaign that drew hundreds of thousands in Seoul, Bright praised the anti-Communist South Korean dictatorship for supposedly allowing more religious liberty than the U.S. A year ago, he wrote a pamphlet to urge U.S. Christians to elect "men and women of God" to public office. He also got entangled with Third Century Publishers, which espouses Evangelical Christianity and hard right-wing politics. (It opposed Jimmy Carter because of his liberalism.) Even the tolerant Billy Graham publicly criticized Bright for trying to organize Evangelicals into a political bloc. Bright...