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Word: electioneers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Not a Pipe Dream." When the President rose to make his off-the-cuff speech he had a crowd which could hardly wait to cheer. He stoutly defended the 81st Congress and the Fair Deal. "My political philosophy," he said, "is based on the Sermon on the Mount." He went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Holiday at Home | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Spring or Autumn? By 342 votes to 5 (the Conservatives and Liberals abstaining) the government's money measures were approved. Winston Churchill's motion of censure was defeated 350 to 212. The merits and demerits of devaluation had been engulfed in a more urgent question: When would the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Battle of the Giants | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Labor strategists would almost certainly not schedule it for the depths of winter, because it is hard to get out the workingman's full vote in cold weather. The Labor Party machinery was not tuned up for an election before spring. The shrewdest observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Battle of the Giants | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

President Juan Peron last week took steps calculated to transform his clumsy authoritarian government into an up-to-date dictatorship. With laws rammed through the closing session of Congress (43 were passed in five hours), the President did away with 1) free political discussion of himself, his wife or his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Up to Da+e | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Hadn't she made a pro-Communist speech on the ship? "No, this must all be a mistake." Had she ever read Karl Marx? "No, never." Had she read Lenin? "No, no." There were more questions, including one about how she had voted in the last election. Then she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: So Sorry | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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