Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Picking up his telephone in Milwaukee one August night in 1957, Wisconsin's Edward William Proxmire offered particular congratulations to Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson on Johnson's 49th birthday. Boomed the Democrat who had just won Joe McCarthy's seat in an upset election: "Senator Johnson...
Minnesota's smart, purposeful Hubert Humphrey last week cleared up a home front problem that had plagued him for months. The problem: if his 1960 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination collapses, as his vice-presidency bid did in 1956, will he have time to campaign for re-election...
Nothing seemed more logical than to give the American post to Archbishop James, succeeding Metropolitan Michael, who died in New York last July. But behind his election loomed a split in the Greek Orthodox Church, and outright mutiny against towering, white-bearded Athenagoras I of Constantinople, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of...
Last month in Istanbul, Athenagoras backed James for election to the New York see against stiff opposition. The battle arena: Greek Orthodoxy's twelve-seat Holy Synod, composed of 16 metropolitans (on a revolving basis), whose actual or titular sees are in Turkey. To elect James, Athenagoras needed a...
Long seeks election as treasurer, the other two as members-at-large. In addition to supporting Bayley, the trio urged a tightening of rules, so that no person could be a member of both the Young Republicans and the Young Democrats at the same time.