Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ambling out of his mother's Phillipsburg house on election night last week to acknowledge victory shouts from 3,000 cheering fellow Democrats, New Jersey's handsome Governor Robert Baumle Meyner smiled broadly at the carefully printed posters and signs held by the faithful. MEYNER IN '60...
Off-year local elections, often treacherous to politicians and political pundits, usually turn on a name, a face or a voice. Among the names, faces and voices that came through last week: CJ In Pittsburgh (pop. 680,000), Mayor Dave Lawrence, 68, a Democratic boss who runs the wards and...
The Byrd-guns of Virginia's Democratic Party shot the Republican Party out of the sky in last week's gubernatorial election. Senator Harry Flood Byrd's machine, mobilized and primed by President Eisenhower's decision to send troops into Little Rock, called on the faithful...
The seven Good Government Committee candidates running for office on Little Rock's city-manager-type Board of Directors tried hard to keep Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus, and indeed the whole segregation issue, out of the election. They even went to Faubus and begged him not to interfere...
Election & Ejection. As he faced the Assembly to ask for investiture last week, the emotional impact of the occasion imparted a tremor to Gaillard's normally resonant voice. Then he steadied and briskly outlined his program. Main points: special powers for pursuing the war in Algeria (including a new...