Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contrary to the wishes of most organized labor, these three Republican dominated organizations conducted their campaign to a group of Congressmen mindful of campaign contributions in the forthcoming election. Seventy-seven per cent of House Republicans voted against the bill, while seventy per cent of House Democrats voted for the...
Similarly "self-determination" in our election-conscious Western society seems like a natural democratic solution for the people on Formosa, and this principle is undoubtedly basis for a sound policy. But if we expect it to be applied in the form of a "plebiscite" sponsored by the UN, we will...
Harriman abandoned the Republican Party in 1928 to vote for Al Smith, four years later pushed for the presidential election of his fellow squire, Franklin Roosevelt. After a series of Washington jobs in the NRA '305, Harriman spent 1941 to 1943 in London and Moscow as F.D.R.'s...
Though the eleven-year-old republic of Pakistan has yet to hold its first general election, its politicians stage some of the fiercest parliamentary battles of the British Commonwealth. Last week in Dacca, the evenly matched government and opposition forces of East Pakistan waged the biggest brawl in the young...
The F.L.N. countered with a warning that if Moslems voted they were "committing suicide." From Cairo, headquarters of the new Algerian "government in exile," Premier Ferhat Abbas denounced the referendum as an "intolerable pressure" on the F.L.N.'s fight for independence. "Algeria is not France. The Algerian people are...