Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Harvard Advocate yesterday announced election of its officers for 1958. President is Peter P. Brooks '59 of Eliot House and New Canaan, Conn.; Secretary, William Wertenbaker '59 of Charlottesville, Va. and Eliot House; Treasurer, Peter A. Tcherepnin '60 of Lowell House and Chicago, III. Other officers are Business Manager...
Next week the budget's wraps come off and Congress gets to work. Facing the men of Capitol Hill are three conflicting impulses: the desire for pork-barrel spending in an election year, the desire to economize, the desire to keep up with Russia without going into debt or...
In 1952 Cincinnatian McElroy contributed to the preconvention campaign of Cincinnatian Robert A. Taft, but supported Ike in the general election. As a Harvard overseer and an adviser to the University of Cincinnati, McElroy had long been a lay educational leader, and in 1954 President Eisenhower tapped him for a...
Grabbed Officers. The blowup was triggered on New Year's Eve in Caracas; Brigadier General Hugo Fuentes, the tall, gaunt commander of Venezuela's 20,000-man ground forces, was on his way to the President's reception when secret police arrested him. Grabbed at the same...
Many legislators recall Charley Wilson's warning that defense appropriations must do more than simply increase to cover the cost of inflation. The $40 billion figure reputedly selected by the Administration for this year's military spending tallies uncomfortably closely with Wilson's estimate for a budget raise designed only...