Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Germany, where the Russians had staged an election for a People's Congress in the Soviet zone (TIME, May 23), they received a stinging slap in the face. Communist Party workers got out the vote, all right, but the vote was heavily antiCommunist. The Communist press had predicted...
G. Mennen Williams, who beat out Republican incumbent Kim Sigler last year for the governorship of Michigan, got powerful support from organized labor in his drive for election.
The Governor also retorted to charges by Williams, his opponent, that he was playing politics with the workers' service. "This election," he commented, "is a question of whether the radicals, reds, and pinks, who have hitched on to the Democratic Party, or the Republicans" will win. He was defeated 11...
Another West Coast state, Washington, also has a "little Dies Committee." Representative Albert F. Canwell, the committee's chairman, was defeated in the 1948 election, but under his direction, the legislative group's investigation of the University of Washington last year touched off the string of events that resulted in...
Besides planning a concrete financial basis for its activities next year, the Council also strengthened its vacabership with the election of two men to the executive heard of the group, and the elevation of 12 provisional members to full membership status.