Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Tories were planning in Empress Hall, Prime Minister Attlee huddled with Labor's top brass, pondering the question of whether to call a general election now or wait till next spring. Last week they got to an answer. As some observers had predicted (TIME, Oct. 10), the...
Tories, who thought their chances would have been good in an early election, were impatient at the delay. But, said Churchill confidently, "we can certainly afford to wait."
In effect, the election called for a vote of confidence in Norway's four-year-old Socialist experiment, directed by lean, ascetic Commerce Minister Erik Brofoss, a Norse version of Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps.
Most Sincere. Three years ago Laureano put up moderate Mariano Ospina Perez for president. Ospina won because of a Liberal split. Many thought Laureano might have the good sense to put up another moderate this year. But the fires of April 9 burned too brightly in his memory. Liberals, moreover...
New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer, 59, running for reelection, was a likely candidate for marriage as well. Photographers snapped him at St. Patrick's Cathedral and the ballet with brunette, thirtyish ex-Model Sloan Simpson, a fashion consultant whom he met about a year...