Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nominated last week for a fourth term as New Orleans' mayor (and facing no Republican opposition in the April 8 general election): balding, bouncy Democrat deLesseps Story Morrison, 46, onetime boy wonder of Louisiana politics. During the campaign, Morrison's five primary opponents tilted at crime and police...
Even while election-night returns were rolling in, New Orleans wondered what the political future might hold for its energetic mayor. Under a new 1954 charter pushed by Morrison himself, Morrison's fourth term will be his last. He is anxious to progress in politics, will at midterm in...
Premier Adnan Menderes seems to believe that the simplest way to end domestic criticism of his government is to pass a law against it. After his re-election last fall, Menderes rammed through another in a series of restrictive laws making it a criminal offense for a newspaper to print...
Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 62, flew to Quebec City one snowy day last week to notify Governor General Vincent Massey of his intention to dissolve Parliament, call a new national election. In a dramatic scene in the House of Commons that evening, Diefenbaker set the election for March 31...
Parliament Hill and the nation's headlines were gripped by jittery expectancy as artful Politician Diefenbaker parried all questions about election plans. Finally, with most of his key measures safely, on the statute books. Diefenbaker put an end to the suspense.