Word: election
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators-elect had graduated from the House. The seat of Virginia's late Carter Glass went to veteran Democratic Representative A. Willis Robertson, a disciple of economy-minded Harry Flood Byrd. Idaho's conscientious, isolationist Henry Dworshak moved up a notch after four terms as a G.O.P. Congressman...
Richard Milhouse Nixon, dark, lank Quaker attorney who turned a California grass-roots campaign (dubbed "hopeless" by wheelhorse Republicans) into a triumph over high-powered, high-minded Democratic incumbent Jerry Voorhis. To beat Voorhis, ex-Navy Lieut. Commander Nixon, 33, passed around 25,000 white plastic thimbles labeled:-"Elect Nixon and needle the P.A.C." He plugged hard for veteran's housing, end of controls, a bipartisan foreign policy, politely avoided personal attacks on his opponent...
...traditional scenes blossomed from coast to coast. In Boston it was suave, patrician Governor-elect Robert Fiske Bradford, who had walloped Democratic incumbent Maurice J. Tobin in a record off-year vote. As cameras clicked, Republican Bradford stepped up for the official accolade from his wife, to the evident de light of son Robert and daughter Rebecca...
...Librarian of Congress; George D. Stoddard, president of the University of Illinois; Arthur H. Compton, chancellor of Washington University (St. Louis); Anne O'Hare McCormick of the New York Times. Alternates: Chester Bowles, ex-OPA Administrator; Milton Eisenhower, president of Kansas State College; Charles S. Johnson, president-elect of Fisk University (see below); George N. Shuster, president of Hunter College; Anna Rosenberg of OWMR...
...winter of 1943, aged 77, died Mrs. William Heelis of Sawrey, president-elect of the Herdwick Sheepbreeders' Association and one of the shrewdest farmers in England's Lake District. Many of the shepherds who followed her to the graveside knew that long, long ago her name had been Beatrix Potter, and that she had come among them from London, where she had written books for children. But they also recalled that anyone who had dared to speak the name of Potter-to say nothing of Peter Rabbit-in the presence of Mrs. Heelis had been shown the door...