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Word: electioneering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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"A Pretty Good Governor." In Washington, Democrats, with one strike against them because they voted to water down the Administration's civil rights bill last year, were stunned into temporary silence by the realization that they would go into the fall and the 1960 campaigns with Orval Faubus around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: Turmoil Ahead | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

In his first call for a summit meeting on the Middle East, Nikita Khrushchev declared that "the world is on the brink of catastrophe," and the fighting had already begun. Last week Khrushchev was still rumbling about "a powder barrel which can explode at the slightest spark." The summit meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: What to Talk About | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

President Chamoun's election, and during the Suez crisis he held office briefly again as Chamoun's Defense Minister. Throughout this year's fighting, he has invited rebel leaders to tea, kept their supply lines open, consulted them regularly by telephone. But he would not order army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: LEBANON'S NEW PRESIDENT | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

After living with senseless death and unresolved bickering for three months, few in Beirut believed that the election of President Camille Chamoun's successor would be held on schedule last week. But the U.S. troop landings had shocked all Lebanese into a new sense of urgency. Under the implied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: A Vote for Peace | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

Army Salute. Voting began without debate. On the first ballot, with the rebels as well as most of Chamoun's men voting solidly for him. General Chehab received 42 votes-just two short of the necessary two-thirds majority. Beirut's Independent Raymond Edde polled a surprising ten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: A Vote for Peace | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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