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Word: electioneerings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, not all Hungary's troubles were with the Communists. In an important by-election the demonstrative Andrew Mecser, known as "Hitler's personal representative in Budapest," was decisively defeated for the Lower Chamber. Next day Führer Adolf Hitler showed his displeasure at the defeat by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Southern Relatives | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

As the clock struck twelve one night last week in Manhattan's statue-strewn Academy of Medicine, a handful of doctors paced the marble floor as nervously as any expectant fathers. They were awaiting results of the vote for the new officers of the New York County Medical Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Liberal and Inquiring | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

In its traditional attempt to prognosticate Lampy's executive board on the day before the election, and then prematurely to announce the "results" as a fait accompli, the CRIMSON yesterday laid an ostrich egg in correctly picking only one man out of an executive board of eight.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOWIE, RICHARDSON NEW LAMPY PRESIDENT, IBIS | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

Undergraduate dissatisfaction with the clubs centers around the undemocratic "bicker week" method of "formal interview" and election. Ziegler says. The 20 per cent who are left out of this "major part of the pleasant routine life of the Junior and Senior year" are too small a group to make their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Club System Is Responsible for "Intellectual Inertia," Declares Article | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

Telling the story with an even, unemphatic clarity and selective power, Sandburg adds incident to incident, utterance to utterance, personality to personality until he recreates the wild winter of 1860-61, when the election of Abraham Lincoln, on a platform committed to the limitation of slavery, aroused the fire-eaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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