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Word: electioneering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Chuck Chamberlain and colleagues settled down for the remainder of an important session. Back in the cave of the winds there was slim chance that an election-year Congress would quit making a big political thing out of the recession. On the other hand, there was high hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Voice of the People | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

Like its Washington counterpart, Manila's annual National Press Club Gridiron show is enlivened by roasting the politicians in the audience. But never before had Manila's jesting correspondents gone so far in impertinence. The curtain rose on a scratching, underwear-clad figure representing President Carlos Garcia during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: A Year After Magsaysay | 4/21/1958 | See Source »

One feels also that Handlin has over-emphasized Smith's Catholicism in discussing his 1928 defeat, and has paid inadequate attention to Prohibition as an issue. This fault appears not so much in the chapter on the election itself, but in subsequent references, as when he analyzes Smith's feelings...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Handlin Scans Al Smith With One Eye on 1960 | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

Politics is always fair game for a laugh, and Of Thee I Sing is about a presidential election, and John P. Wintergreen (you know, Win-ter-green for Pre-si-dent), and his true love, Mary ("I'm the only person in the world who can make corn muffins without...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Of Thee I Sing | 4/17/1958 | See Source »

Despite Castro's lack of success, however, Batista is in an unenviable position. Strongmen who die in bed usually do so in exile. If he is smart, Batista would like very much to retire again as he did in 1944; he is once again rich. He is not running in...

Author: By Garcia Y Vega, | Title: Requiem for a Strongman | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

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