Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Question at issue: Should the House of Representatives accept the watered-down civil rights bill passed by the Senate? Joe Martin was all for shelving the bill in hopes of getting a better one in Election Year, 1958. But Martin and like-minded Republicans were fighting a lonely battle. They...
If the President's political philosophy excluded threats and clubs, it did not rule out "degrees of enthusiasm that I have for the re-election or election of certain people, even though they bear the name Republican ... so I have, I think, my own ways of expressing that degree...
After two days of wreath-laying, factory tours and hat-waving parades through largely deserted streets, it became apparent that the Khrushchev party had not come to Berlin to offer any dazzling scheme for German reunification that might sway West Germany's election against Chancellor Adenauer next month. Quite...
History was coming full circle in the poverty-ridden crown colony of British Guiana last week. Four years ago, in the country's first general election, Communism-spouting Cheddi B. Jagan, a suave, U.S.-educated East Indian dentist (Northwestern University, '43), startled the complacent British by sweeping into...
As a preview of the presidential elections set for next Feb. 23, last week's results proved little. If Frondizi could work out a pact with the Peronistas and still hold onto his present following, he would win-but Perón has scorned Frondizi's overtures and...