Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the other hand, there are powerful pressures not to join. Campus politics is thought a "dirty game," and in some cases the belief is as justified as it is widespread. Spectacles such as the "coup" to overthrow the Council to Study Disarmament, and the vitriolic election battles within the...
Phillips Brooks House announced the election of three new officers for 1959-1960 last night. Robert R. Little '60, of Lowell House and Penfield, N.Y., was chosen president; Sheldon Greenfield '60, of Leverett House and Cincinnati, Ohio, first vice-president; and Stephen R. Crespin '60, of Dunster House and Cincinnati...
I have never seen another place where a sheriff could swagger around the polls advising voters: "I don't give a goddam who you vote fer-I'm gonna be your sher'f." And anyone who went fishing in Wallins Creek after an election was more likely...
Though decided by local considerations, last week's elections nonetheless had national significance. Under De Gaulle's new constitution, the election of France's Senate and the election of the President of the Republic are to be in the hands of electoral colleges largely composed of municipal...
Air Force General Nathan Twining, his rakish fedora and hail-fellow grin somewhat more suggestive of a precinct boss on election night than a hard-working Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, showed up in mufti, as he often does, for a brass-tacks Monday conference with the President...