Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawrence is an honest, hard-working boss. He spends Sundays at his desk, flicks off unnecessary office lights, refuses to trade in his 1950 city Cadillac, and won't even use it in his campaign rounds. He is the most powerful big-city mayor in the U.S., has the...
Earle turned out to be a playboy governor; Lawrence, as secretary of the commonwealth, ran Pennsylvania. He made one impolitic mistake. In a burst of bipartisanship, he sanctioned appointment of a Republican attorney general, eventually found himself indicted on graft and corruption charges for passing out illegal contracts and "macing...
Visiting Manhattan last week to boost the National Fund for Medical Education, President Eisenhower took time as well to boost an old friend. Summoned to Ike's Waldorf-Astoria suite for 15 minutes of pleasantries and pictures was Robert Keaton Christenberry, 58, Republican candidate for mayor of New York...
On an even grander scale, he has accused Meyner of permitting "a complete breakdown at the state level in the law enforcement machinery," and has hinted darkly that the administration is covering up a "major garbage collection scandal" in Bergen County until the election is over.
In the absence of any real local issues, the campaign has taken on national overtones. It is automatically assumed that Meyner has presidential aspirations for 1960. And the Republicans have come to regard the election as an important national morale factor.