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Word: electioneering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶Agreed to give state labor boards jurisdiction over small-business-labor disputes now rejected by the National Labor Relations Board, thus strengthening the Senate's halfway attempt to solve the "no man's land" problem. ¶ Accepted the House's stronger ban on blackmail picketing, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Labor Reform Act of 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

*Last week, after delaying a decision for eight months, a House Elections Subcommittee ruled that Alford's election was legitimate.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Decline & Fall | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Mississippi, the South's lowest ranking state in per capita income and educational spending, last week took its place in the political scale. Winner of the Democratic nomination for Governor (and automatic election next November) was as bitter a racist as inhabits the nation, Ross Robert Barnett, 61, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Mississippi Mud | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

One of Barnett's first acts as Governor will be a conference with his particular hero, Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus and like-minded Southern segregationists. "I am going to put forth every effort,'' he promised, "to organize Southern Governors to create and crystallize public opinion throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Mississippi Mud | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

It is standard operating procedure in Southeast Asia for a nation to win independence, fall into economic and political chaos and, finally, take desperate refuge in military rule that is usually efficient and honest but still dictatorship. Last week, after two years of freedom, the Federation of Malaya was proving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: The Tengku's Landslide | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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