Word: electioneer
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Robert A. Taft and the townspeople of Ottawa, Ohio (pop. 2,400) had a date to meet one night this week in the county courthouse. It was something of a special occasion-Ottawa was the last stop on the Senator's 100-day politicking tour of his home state...
The political attention of Britain was focused last week on Bradford, a sooty textile city in Yorkshire, where Britain's Labor government faced probably its last major test before next year's general elections. It was the 35th by-election since 1945 in which the Labor government was...
Last week, the old row broke out anew. With the annual elections still more than a month away, 605 out of 788 sophomores signed a petition declaring that they would join no club at all unless bids were extended to every student seeking election. It was true, said the sophomores...
Some student and graduate clubmen howled in protest. The sophomores were infringing upon the clubs' "basic right of selectivity." But there were plenty of other clubmen who disagreed: 217 said they would themselves resign unless the sophomores had their way. By week's end, the sophomores seemed to...
The election also elevated Charles C. Osborne '52 to Narthex, Charles B. Flood '51 to Ibis, and Peter T. Dixon '51 to Treasurer. Frank E. Baker '51 becomes Business Manager, a post which has been reinstituted.