Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the latest party revolt against Ezra Benson lay grim results of a special election in Minnesota to fill the late Congressman August Andresen's First District seat. So rock-ribbed Republican are the First District's twelve rural counties that the district has sent only three Democrats...
Elected to the state senate in 1915, Harry Byrd led a bitter fight for pay-as-you-go road building as against bond financing, won in a referendum, carried on his model highway program after his election as governor in 1925. Governor Byrd pushed through a tough antilynch law, streamlined...
Shock at Home. But Harold Macmillan stepped off the plane at London Airport to face jolting news. For weeks the country had been watching the Lancashire textile center of Rochdale, where a crucial by-election campaign was being waged to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Tory...
Most of the islanders are animists who people every rock and tree with good and evil spirits. The Franciscans' real enemy is harder to cope with than any swarm of spirits. It is called MamorKai ("Remember to Take Care of"), a front organization that provides the poor of Amami...
Last week Nakamura and his mayoralty candidate, Socialist Tetsuji Otsu, wheedled enough votes from the fire-ravaged Naseians to win the election. Their most telling campaign promise: money to rebuild the burned-out homes. But Father Jerome, struggling to help the survivors of a new storm, knew that the battle...