Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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† Warned conservative Senator John W. Bricker when Ohio Republicans decided to put right-to-work up for a vote in the November election: "If you put this on the ballot, you will lose the governorship, control of the state senate and house, and I might lose." He was right...
*After overthrowing dictators, Venezuela held an election in ten months, Colombia in twelve months, Argentina in 29 months.
A group of insurgent freshmen provided the only drama last night in the most peaceful Young Republican Club election of recent years. Christopher T. Bayley '60, of Leverett House and Seattle, Wash., was overwhelmingly elected president as expected by everyone, including his opponent.
With the record of corruption the teamsters had built up, Judge Letts's appointment of monitors was virtually the only practical solution to the suit for invalidation of the election which John Cunningham, New York teamster leader, brought against the union. But neither monitors nor disciplinary expulsion by the AFL...
The hopes of Judge Letts that an election could be held a year after his appointment of monitors had vanished by last December when he told the Brotherhood not to hold its convention in January, and that it would have to get permission from the court before scheduling an election...