Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rifle-toting, steel-helmeted police stood guard this week while Conservative voters dutifully queued up to mark their ballots at the polls. In an uncontested election, the Conservative government was applying the final constitutional touch to its relentless drive to elevate its arch-conservative leader, Laureano Gómez, into Colombia...
Election day passed in relative calm. Fumbling Liberals, who had already withdrawn their presidential candidate, Dario Echandia, in protest at government indifference to violence (TIME, Nov. 14), called for a three-day general strike. Though some railroads were affected in the provinces, the main results of the strike in Bogota...
The satire is itself twofold, kidding Texas by way of a national picture magazine that decides to boom a small-time Texas politician (Kenny Delmar) for the presidency. The politician is meanwhile running for re-election as state senator against a young veteran (Danny Scholl). The plot is thickened by...
The Blunt Fact. The Catholics of England and Wales (2,528,200 in a population of 43,534,000) are organizing their forces to make each candidate in next spring's General Election publicly commit himself for or against their plan. Last week the Labor government made it a...
The statistics released by the Bavarian Government last week document the shocking fact that former Nazi party members hold a majority of civil service posts in the more important state ministries. Anyone who read beyond the encouraging headlines on last summer's election for the first Federal Parliament knew the...