Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herter stepped into politics when the longtime representative from Boston's upper-crust Fifth Ward decided to retire from the state legislature. He knew and liked Herter, and so did the ward's Republican leader, who had roomed with Chris at Harvard. Talked into running, Herter won. Aristocratic...
"Stalin can't see into the election booth, but God can." With this slogan, in Italy's 1949 election, Catholic Action workers backed up the Vatican's excommunication of any Roman Catholic who gave his vote to the Communists. Last week the ten-year-old slogan was...
With an election ahead, the Tory budget scattered benefits among millions. A Rolls-Royce dealer took a column frontpage ad in the Times to coo: "A wonderful budget." On the stock exchange, share prices went to an alltime high.
Bouncing into view before some 2,000 University of California at Los Angeles students, Elder Statesman Harry S. Truman, 74, sprang a surprise on his listeners: U.C.L.A. has offered him a short-term regents' lectureship and "When I get here, you may be sorry!" On another whistle stop in...
In contrast to this majority, there is the small group of students who either by election as representatives of a class or a House, or by election to office within their own activity, take on a new status, not only as student qua student, but also as student qua leader...