Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oregon-born (Klamath Falls) Harvard-man ('41) Charlie Porter, a World War II Air Corps ground officer, settled down quietly on the lowly House Post Office and Civil Service Committee after his election in 1956. But like others of the species, he soon discovered that international affairs could bring...
POLITICAL NOTES Poll Vaulting On his swing through Oregon, Presidential Hopeful Nelson Rockefeller sprayed just a whiff of doubt that Vice President Richard Nixon could win enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidential election (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, in a visit to Rhode Island, he conceded that...
Already pressing voter-registration suits against Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, the Justice Department last week set out for the first time to uphold the right of a Negro to vote in a local election. Moving under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the U.S. filed suit in Memphis federal court...
Fresh Start. In Charlotte, N.C., Herbert H. Baxter, a city councilman for 14 years and mayor for six, mulled over his defeat in a municipal election for six months, finally enrolled in a Chamber of Commerce course called "Practical Politics."
With Tribune morale at rock bottom, the results of last week's Guild election were inevitable. Indeed. Bill Knowland hardly put up a fight. Said he after the polling: "The vote speaks for itself." Indeed it did: by a 2-to-i margin. Bill Knowland had just lost another...