Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, was seated at the head of a long table in the conference room next to his office. He was presiding at a routine public meeting of state-election commissioners. A beefy, cigar-chewing reporter sidled up to the Governor, whispered in his ear the news...
In their strange alchemy, Harry Byrd, Lindsay Almond and the Virginia political organization are the real secret of Virginia's segregation struggle. Far from holding to Jefferson's faith in the good sense of the common people, the Byrd organization is an oligarchy, composed of the few, chosen...
"Payne 6f Maine," parodied Pine Tree State Democrats on the eve of last week's early-bird election, "is mainly on the wane." But not even Democrats, as the results rolled in, were prepared for the size of their gain. Not only did Frederick G. Payne lose, as expected...
Coffin, 39, handily won re-election to Congress as predicted. ¶ In the downstate First District, James C. ("Big Jim") Oliver, 63, a onetime G.O.P. isolationist, Coughlinite and Townsendite turned Democrat, defeated eight-term Republican Robert Hale by 3,000 votes to give Democrats two of Maine's three...
Major deponents in this year's election race for Senator were ex-Senator Claude Pepper and Incumbent Spessard Holland (TIME, Sept. 8). What went on at the grillings was, as usual, the secret of those who took part, but apparently they were uncommonly revealing. Making its choice last week...