Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erin Grievances. In Milwaukee, Robert D. Sullivan lost a primary election for a civil judgeship by 2,954 votes, two days later fulfilled a previously made commitment to lecture the West Allis Kiwanis Club on "The Luck of the Irish."
In the late 15th century, the financial empire of the Fugger Brothers blanketed Europe as Fugger linen left to bleach in the sun once covered the meadows around the fortress city of Augsburg, where the family fortune began. Brother Jakob was the genius of the Fuggers, buying silver mines in...
"The only cementing factor," says Opposition Leader Dr. N. M. Perera, a handsome, sleepy-eyed Trotskyite,* "is the mutual dread of an election." By gently shifting his influence, Banda alternately encourages and hampers Gunawardena in his proposals for land reform and rural cooperatives; little has been done to fulfill election...
First in the South. In Northern Rhodesia, late election results showed that Welensky's United Federal Party finished out front but failed to win a clear majority. Four out of 20 seats on the legislative council went to the new Central African Party, headed by Garfield Todd, whose liberal...
Died. Sidney Earle Smith, 62, Canada's well-traveled Secretary of State for External Affairs, Nova Scotia-born lawyer who gave most of his career to education, was president of the University of Manitoba (1934-44) and the University of Toronto (1945-57), entered politics at 60 when-soon...