Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One of the quietest and one of the most strident Republican members of the U.S. Senate announced last week that they will not run for re-election in 1958. The bowers-out, both of them lawyers who reached the Senate in 1944:
The rebels talk and bicker incessantly. But they dig deep to support the cause, and they constantly risk their lives and fortunes for a single, basic political goal: return of constitutional government, which Batista disrupted by his 1952 army coup, staged just 82 days before a presidentia1 election that he...
Under the succeeding regimes of the constitutionally elected Presidents Ramón Grau San Martin and Carlos Prio Socarrás, rival gangs polished off some 100 political victims. Both the Grau and Prio regimes milked the nation of millions in graft. After Batista came back, he rammed through a...
"We are bourgeois," recalls one, "and we used the materials we felt safe with. We worked through the Rotary Club, the bar association, the medical association." At first they held a long "civic dialogue" with Batista, aimed at persuading him to hold a fair election. That failed. "Then we tried...
H. DUANE WADSWORTH, Dunster; WHRB; PBH; House Election Committee, Chairman; Hasty Pudding; HYRC; House Drama Workshop; House Music-Drama Society; Social Relations Society.