Word: electics
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...Fair Deal wing of the Democratic party, occupied important appointive positions under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman. He was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a member of the Federal Trade Commission, and chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. In 1960, he was an adviser to the then President-elect Kennedy on possible charges in Federal regulatory agencies...
...Baathist leaders from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and "certain other countries" that he refused to name. The announced purpose: to seek a "new political strategy basis for future activity in the Middle East." Not to be outdone, Nasser called for a giant rally of all Arab nationalist movements, to elect a supreme council...
SANFORD S. ATWOOD President-elect Emory University Ithaca...
...Goldwater and not Rockefeller who can win in Maine, for we will come out of the hills and woods and in from the islands and the shore to elect...
...present all-or-nothing arrangement, while at the same time retaining a vestige of the federal system. The Lodge plan is resisted by Kennedy Democrats, including John F. himself, who fought hard against a version of it in the Senate in 1956. One flaw is that in a close election, such as Lincoln's in 1860 or Kennedy's in 1960, splinter parties could prevent any candidate from getting a majority of the electoral votes, and the election would be thrown into the House of Representatives. To prevent that, Lodge urged inclusion of a clause making...