Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Krug got in rows with other federal officials over reclamation projects, got the President's back up by going to Congress for more money over the head of the Budget Bureau. He was also found wanting when political accounts were added up after the 1948 election campaign.
By early afternoon on election day, only a few people hurried to the polls along the palm-shaded streets of Bacolod City, capital of Occidental Negros Province in the Philippines. As the voters entered the rickety, paper-covered polling booths they glanced nervously at the carbine-carrying, khaki-clad youths...
Fast Pesos. A Bacolod shopkeeper told an American: "In the old days, election day was like a fiesta. People stayed for hours to talk outside the polling places. Today they are afraid. As soon as they vote, they run back and stay in their homes. This is the loneliest election...
Winner of the lonely election was Elpidio ("Pidiong") Quirino, who became President last year after the death of Manuel Roxas. Breezy and genial, Quirino tries, at his meetings with reporters, to act like President Truman at White House press conferences, plugs his own version of the Fair Deal for the...
A close associate of the general in postliberation days, Bidault said last spring: "We are ready to rally around the prodigious name of General de Gaulle." No Gaullist deputy had voted against Bidault when he formed his new government. . Into this situation the newspaper L'Epoque, right-wing but...