Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In his fight to reverse the trend, Dick Lee epitomizes a long-needed new look in U.S. city government. Says he: "The old type mayor was a ceremonial figure, concerned with marriages, wakes, strawberry festivals, ribbon-cutting. Today a mayor has to be an administrator and planner." A shipping clerk...
Among U.S. city governments, few have been more strongly controlled by big labor than Minneapolis (pop. 560,700). Endorsement by the city's Central Labor Union (representing 166 A.F.L. locals, 75,100 members) has all but guaranteed election-day victory since the mid-'40s. But last week, to...
Salutes & a Shift. As Zoli had calculated, the Fascists and Monarchists were too eager to get back into political grace to be put off by his avowals of philosophical hostility. But when 17 Monarchists and Fascists helped him win a 132-93 vote of confidence in Italy's Senate...
As the week began Pierre Pflimlin, member of the M.R.P. Catholic center party and a good European, had tried to form a Cabinet devoted to lacing France into a "financial corset" of austerity. Conservative Independent Paul Reynaud told him: "Your program is tragically insufficient. I would even say it is...
In a brief foray into Quebec, Tory Chieftain Diefenbaker could play no such homey role. Reading speeches in schoolboy French, Diefenbaker was unable to shake Quebec's traditional suspicion of the Conservatives, whose strength is based in the English culture of neighboring Ontario. But across the provinces, Diefenbaker has...