Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Woodrow Wilson. Daughter Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 69, recalled Wilson's triumphant return to his birthplace of Staunton, Va. shortly after his first election in 1912. Visiting with his ancient Aunt Janie, a "grim old Presbyterian" almost stone deaf, Wilson twice bellowed into her ear trumpet: "I've...
Close to 1,000,000 Coptic Christians of Egypt, who believe themselves to be the world's oldest Christian sect, celebrated the election of a new pope last week. The man who will also be looked to for guidance by Coptic leaders in Ethiopia, the Sudan and Libya was...
The Class Committee of 1959 has announced the election of Frederick C. Cabot as Permanent Class Treasurer and Charles Devens, Jr. as Permanent Class Secretary. R. Dyke Benjamin, Richard E. Rubenstein, John P. Demos, J. Lindsay Coolidge and Stuart Troy have been chosen by the Committee to act as Class...
¶ Castro offered conflicting reasons why elections must wait up to four years: "An election now would just be a plebiscite for us," but also "old electoral vices could bring tyranny and oligarchy back."
Proposed for a $20,000-a-year job as a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority by President Eisenhower: Arkansas' former Democratic Congressman Brooks Hays, 60, defeated last November in his bid for re-election by an eleventh-hour write-in vote of Little Rock school segregationists, hastily mobilized...