Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the election of his successor less than three weeks away, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez proclaimed a state of siege. In a volley of swift decrees he also: 1) indefinitely suspended Congress (which has a Liberal majority); 2) took away the power of the supreme court's Liberal...
Political Passion. Ever since the tragic Bogota uprising of April 9, 1948, Colombia had been drifting toward just such a moment of force. Liberals, having healed the division that cost them the presidency in 1946, used their congressional majority to push the election date seven months forward in expectation of...
In rural political killing and burning, which frightened the other party's members from voting, Conservatives gained a bloody advantage. Liberals raged that the police fought for the Conservatives. By last week, counting their dead in the thousands, Liberal leaders concluded that they had no chance of a fair...
Died. Clyde Martin Reed, 78, onetime Kansas governor (1929-31), Republican Senator from Kansas since 1939; of a heart attack and a fall down the stairs; in Parsons, Kans. A onetime Bull Mooser, Reed was the trumpeting publisher of the Parsons Sun, an ardent dry and a crotchety independent. The...
* In the 1899 House of Commons election at Oldham, he defeated Winston Churchill.