Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Important international negotiations lie ahead," said Macmillan. "It is clearly right that the people should have the opportunity of deciding, as soon as practicable, who are to represent them in these negotiations." The papers immediately labeled it a "summit election,", and Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell, caught off base visiting Premier...
The Suntan Vote. Never before had a British party won three straight general elections without coalition support, but there was little doubt that Macmillan, a master of political maneuver, had chosen the top psychological moment. The Tories' Suez fiasco and its architect, Sir Anthony Eden, were fading into oblivion...
Fact was that such favorite Labor Party targets as the bloody consequences of Tory colonial policy in Kenya and Cyprus seemed unlikely to cut much ice. The real issue in the election is the rising standard of living and its continuance. On that score, wavy-haired Hugh Gaitskell, Oxford-trained...
The Federalist Party first took note of Quincy after his flaming July 4th oration in 1798, which lambasted the French Directory and its attitude toward the fledgling United States. Edmund Quincy, Josiah's son and very partial biographer, enthused over the speech: "The effect which his oration produced upon the...
His crusading spirit manifested itself in many ways. The first House of Correction, reform school, and fire cisterns appeared during his five years in office. The red light district retreated before his reforms, and Quincy even took the revolutionary step of establishing a high school for girls. Quincy's pride...