Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supporting Dennis White '60, Dawson claims in an open letter that "the club needs fresh spirit, and White will give it the responsible leadership it must have to become a respected part of the University community. When I left office, the club was unified for an active election year, but...
"Martin's loss to Rep. Halleck is very sad, on the one hand," Rudolph continued. "But, on the other hand, the 1958 election was a liberal victory. The Republicans seem to have taken the results to heart." Martin's 20-year term as GOP leader was ended by the so...
AUGUST: QUEMOY. When Red China's Mao Tse-tung conferred in Peking with Khrushchev, began bombarding the Chinese Nationalist offshore island of Quemoy, attempted in a U.S. congressional election year to scare off the U.S. with hair-raising war threats, the U.S. warned Red China that it intended to...
Died. Thomas F. Ford, 85, onetime (1933-45) Democratic Congressman from California, former literary editor of the Los Angeles Times; in South Pasadena, Calif. Re-election in 1944 would have been a sure thing for Congressman Ford, but he refused to run, called the U.S. House of Representatives "the least...
¶ Arkansas Fifth (Little Rock) District, where Segregationist Independent Dale Alford defeated respected eight-term Democrat Brooks Hays after a write-in campaign attacking Southern Baptist Convention President Hays's moderate stand on integration (TIME, Nov. 17). Protesting the outcome last week was not Hays but John F. Wells...