Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pain in Maine. With agonizing reluctance, Dwight Eisenhower agreed to let Adams go. But he could not bring himself to ask for the resignation himself. To Meade Alcorn, longtime Adams friend and a fellow Dartmouth graduate, went the unenviable assignment of telling Adams. "You've got to handle it...
King, still conscious and calm, was rushed to the Harlem Hospital with the letter opener still in his chest, was soon followed by a score or so of well-wishers and Negro leaders. Also present: fleet-footed Governor Averell Harriman, who was campaigning for re-election in the city when...
¶ Hoffa's good friend Judge Joseph A. Gillis of Detroit's recorders court, received $100 a week for 13 weeks as "adviser" for a Teamster TV program, got an extra $6,200 for his re-election campaign. Later, the judge presided over Teamster extortion trials.
Thus ended the latest round of hearings on the Teamsters, which added up to the greatest blot on the record of U.S. organized labor. As for Slippery Jim, he announced that he will call a special Teamster election for February (at a cost of $1,500,000) to get out...
The special election will probably be little more than a ratification of Peterson's election as interim president. Commenting on the unanimity of yesterday's vote, Peterson declared that "the HYRC has never been more unified than it is today."