Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adams House will hold its elections Thursday. In a last minute switch Eliot House postponed its election until today due to a change in candidates.
"Think," said President Marcos Pérez Jiménez, "of a country convulsed in political battle; of different parties, each trying to get votes by speeches filled with threats and defamation mixed with promises and offers of wellbeing; of streets in cities and towns painted and papered to the...
In splashy newspaper advertisements, businessmen prudently lavished praise on Pérez Jiménez' substitute for free elections. The semiofficial press carried supplements as long as twelve pages crammed with nothing but the names of citizens expressing their "adhesion" to the government. The President ordered all businesses in...
The government's authorization of voting by foreigners, and its heavy pressure for everyone to vote, disturbed the 70,000 U.S. citizens who live in Venezuela, until the U.S. embassy got them off the hook by warning them that they could lose U.S. citizenship if they voted. Also troubled...
In 1948, when other Gannett papers (nearly all in solid Republican territory) supported Tom Dewey for President, Gannett's Independent Democratic Hartford (Conn.) Times (circ. 120,182) backed Truman; in 1952, when Gannett backed Taft, the Times and most other papers in the group boomed Eisenhower. His Independent Republican...