Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The "illiberal" society referred to was the Hasty Pudding-Institute of 1770 which was that year celebrating its hundredth anniversary. Pudding and its rival, the Pi Eta Club, used annually to call a truce just long enough to supervise jointly the election of Class Day officers, Harvard's only official...
The preamble to Signet's constitution states one further purpose for the Society, that election to membership be a recognition of merit. One of the founders expressed his hope that people would be elected on the basis of real ability rather than because of "good fellowship," and that Signet would...
Shadow Cabinet. Sitting in an outer wing of the presidential palace watching these goings-on is young Vice President, Diosdado Macapagal, a Magsaysay follower who, running on the Liberal ticket, got more votes for Veep than did Nacionalista Garcia for President. Since Macapagal refused to change his party after the...
At 64, proud, burly, white-thatched Oswaldo Aranha presumably has one last chance at his lifelong ambition: to sit in Catete Palace, Brazil's White House. If he does not make it in the October 1960 presidential election he will be too old afterward. Last week, in his frantic...
Monroney also commented on the outlook for the 1958 and 1960 elections, expressing confidence in the chances of the Democratic Party. He predicted that the next election would bring 12 additional Democrats into the Senate.