Word: election
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's more than 200,000 alumni elect the Overseers to their six-year term through mailed ballots. Set up by the University charter, the board technically oversees the Harvard Corporation, but has concentrated on reviewing University academic policy in recent years...
...Breaux has $ in fact pushed through 19 pieces of legislation in the House, vs. none for Moore. The Democrat has played down the issue of party affiliation in his campaign, urging people to vote for the man, not the party. "I am an independent moderate Democrat," says he. "To elect a Republican misses the mark. What you want is a good Senator, one who reflects the right philosophy. Remember, we're replacing Russell Long...
...voters of the Eighth Congressional District must take this opportunity to dig beneath the rhetoric of political candidates and elect Roosevelt...
President-elect Franklin Pierce took up residence at the Willard in 1853 and stayed there until the day he marched to the inaugural stand with Millard Fillmore. It was Fillmore who then came back to the hotel and moved into his successor's old quarters. Once, when the water supply in the neighborhood became tainted, Henry Willard sent a couple of barrels of drinking water from his splendid well over to James Buchanan in the White House, just a stroll away...
Abraham Lincoln sneaked into the Willard one dawn just a year later, his bodyguards having cloaked his movements from Illinois because of rumors of assassination. When the President-elect took his boots off in his second-story suite, he found he had forgotten his slippers. Henry Willard had some, but they were not big enough for Abe. Willard's grandfather, William Bradley, just then visiting, had huge feet and slippers to fit. He sent them over to Lincoln's rooms...