Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyer Taft's explanation was that his taciturn tactics were aimed not at O'Neill but at Hamilton County G.O.P. regulars with whom he has intermittently sparred since a Taft-led 1924 reform government took over Cincinnati, with reform-minded Charlie Taft later becoming county attorney. When Taft...
Lleras' qualifications for the job are already on record. An able, respected journalist, he became Colombia's "boy wonder" Minister of the Interior (Premier) at 29, stepped up to the presidency ten years later. He served as head of the creaky old Pan American Union after World War...
Fresh from her election as first woman president of the 47-nation Federation Aeronautique Internationale, Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran rested up on the 600-acre California ranch of Financier Husband Floyd Odium, whooped happily about the job: "Great guns! It never dawned on me a woman would be elected, considering the...
It had been a good year for the Harvard International Council for World Unity and the Underprivileged --"integration" (in time for Spring) with Radcliffe; an almost-unanimous April election slate; a successful high school U.N. Day; and several major addresses on burning issues. They had a right to hang one...
Financial and political advantages of the sterling bloc have kept Strijdom in the Commonwealth until now. But in their hour of triumph. Nationalists tried to placate the English-speaking South Africans. Advised the Nationalist Transvaler: "Don't feel bad about the election . . . Leave your valley of mistrust and suspicion...