Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back to Congress last week with a crisp rejection slip from President Eisenhower went the 1958 farm bill. For the second time in two years, said Ike, Congress had sent him farm legislation "which I cannot in good conscience approve." Intended to freeze 1958 price supports at not less than...
Nikita Khrushchev is a bull who is not particular about which china shop he bustles through. Fresh from his triumphal "election" as Soviet Premier and accompanied by his latest favorite, First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov (see box, p. 24), Khrushchev descended on Budapest, scene of his most dubious triumph. He...
Grudgingly, the government replied with the Lennox-Boyd plan, which would give Negroes six more elective seats and add twelve more councilors, equally divided between Europeans, Negroes and Asians. But this concession did not appease the Africans. Tom Mboya could not block the election, but he did the next best...
The British colonies in the Caribbean Sea-13 islands and numberless neighboring islets that together form the palmiest tropical haven short of Bali Ha'i-last week ran off their first election as a federation headed for nationhood and independence. The voters picked 45 members for a House of...
Britain's Heritage. Last week's election pitted two loose coalitions of parties that have grown up individually on the islands during the last two decades, as they have taken on greater measures of local self-government. The West Indies Federal Labor Party combined the ruling Socialist parties...