Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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As campaigning for a municipal election was getting in high gear, the Rev. Theodore Gibson, president of the Miami N.A.A.C.P., called on City Manager Ira Willard with a plea that Miami's sternly segregated recreational facilities be opened to Negroes. To the Rev. Gibson's surprise, South Carolinian...
De Gaulle's triumph was one in the eye for Harold Macmillan, who, in the heat of the recent British election campaign, airily proclaimed that the summit date would be set "within a few days." It was a setback for Ike, who had publicly expressed (as had Khrushchev) a...
Setting the Switches. Somewhere in the unhappy middle is craggy Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Anxious not to lend further credence to the charge, popular in Britain, that he is an inflexible old nationalist bent on sabotaging the peace, Adenauer is content to let his friend De Gaulle impede the headlong rush...
The Finns, who defended their independence through two gallant, losing wars with Russia, have also found it hard to stand up against their giant neighbor in time of peace. Last year their President Urho Kekkonen shocked many Finns by letting the Russians veto the composition of a Finnish Cabinet. Following...
The Cambridge Civic Association has again failed to gain a majority on the City Council, obtaining only the same four seats it held during the previous term. Incumbents Edward A. Crane '35, Cornelia B. Wheeler, Pearl K. Wise, and Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 were the only CCA-endorsed candidates to...