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Word: electioneering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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I am not a Catholic; I do not necessarily go along with Senator John Kennedy or his beliefs, but I am ashamed that the people who think that religion should be a factor in politics are citizens of this country, where all men are equal. Such a belief is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 29, 1959 | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

To undercut the Western position still further came unmistakable signals from Britain that, to Tories and Socialists alike, the Geneva stalemate simply made a summit conference more urgent than ever. Said Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "We cannot abandon the people of West Berlin ... On the other hand, we have to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENEVA: The Exposure | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Flags of Convenience. For more than four long, strife-torn years, Algeria had little local politics. But there have been three elections under De Gaulle, and as a result the majority of mayors across Algeria are now Moslem, Algiers itself (pop. 500,000) has a Moslem mayor, and Moslems increasingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: THE TURN IN ALGERIA | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Died. James J. Maloney, 63, longtime (1931-51) U.S. Secret Service agent, and briefly chief (1947-48), who was kicked upstairs to U.S. Treasury law enforcement coordinator after prematurely preparing a Secret Service guard for unsuccessful Presidential Candidate Thomas E. Dewey on election eve in 1948; of bronchial pneumonia; in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILESTONES: Milestones, Jun. 22, 1959 | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Like late election returns, posthumous books rarely turn the tide of opinion for or against a writer, and So Be It is no exception. It was Gide's luck and genius to do a few things extremely well. In The Counterfeiters, he wrote a novel that must rank in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gide's Goodbye | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

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