Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before his election as president, Lowell, professor of Government, took no pains to hide his opinion that the undergraduate part of the University badly needed reorganizing. On numerous occasions he had uncompromisingly opposed Eliot's approval of both the free election system and the three year degree, so that...
¶ For the past two months Senator Lyndon Johnson has galloped relentlessly and restlessly around his native Texas, officially campaigning only to retain his aisle seat in the Senate. But "Johnson for President" clubs have sprouted in his tracks like mushrooms in a meadow. This week Johnson, already proclaimed a...
To make the defeat more galling, Louisiana picked two of Long's bitterest enemies to fight it out in the runoff. High man of the eleven candidates scrambling for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination: de-Lesseps Story Morrison, 47, veteran reform Mayor of New Orleans (four four-year terms), clobbered...
The Canada Temperance Act, passed by Parliament in 1878, is memorable largely because it has managed to survive so long. Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, championed it only to prove a constitutional point-that such an important responsibility was a federal rather than a provincial...
A recount of ballots cast in the Nov. 3 municipal election has shown that advocates of fluoridation of the City's water supply won their case, 16,069 to 16,027. This result enlarged the earlier 21 vote margin that had served as a basis for the recount petition.