Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On to New York. This week again, he pleaded for peace and understanding among men-though in more general and gentler tones-when he laid the cornerstone of the half-finished new United Nations Building in Manhattan (see INTERNATIONAL). Then, after lunching with Mayor Bill O'Dwyer-a gesture...
Better Sense. In spite of imposing Democratic majorities, Harry Truman commanded no stable following in either House. Politically, Congress was considerably more conservative than the President. His leadership was frequently overturned on critical issues by a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats, an unstable alliance which provided no consistent leadership...
"Baseball is over," said a Reuters teletypist to a U.N. staff member in a washroom at Flushing Meadows. "We are all making bets on who wins in the election, and on what ballot. Want to come into the pool?"
When the club placed its counterproposal on its annual election ballot last week as a referendum, over 50 per cent of the student body voted 1224 to 78 against the administration.
On November 8, Cambridge voters will have a chance to continue a record of clean civic administration begun in 1940, when they changed to a Plan E form of government. Ten years ago they substituted a city manager for the mayor, and election by proportional representation for the then corrupt...