Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventy-six percent of the freshman class was interested enough in the plight of Peter S. Hearst and the pre-election tantrums of seven other candidates to elect them to the Freshman Smoker Committee...
...faced Student Council members made freshmen troop to the ballot box twice yesterday in order to elect their eight man Smoker Committee...
...General of the Army Douglas MacArthur last week extended a small olive branch. Before a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers (see BUSINESS & FINANCE), MacArthur, now chairman of the board of Remington Rand, urged "firm support of the new Administration," and expressed the hope that "our respected President-elect" might safely and successfully accomplish "his self-appointed task" in Korea. The onetime U.N. commander also indicated that he might be able to give Ike a hand. Said he: "While it is well known that my own views have not been sought in any way, yet I am confident there...
...Cabinet post was filled, Senator Taft had something to say. Having slept soundly on his indignation, he wrote out next morning a statement denouncing the appointment of the A.F.L. Plumbers & Pipe Fitters' President Martin P. Durkin as Secretary of Labor. It was "incredible," said Taft, that the President-elect should appoint a man who "has always been a partisan Truman Democrat, who fought General Eisenhower's election and advocated repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
During those bloody, brawling years, Reuther collected two bad beatings and a crippled right arm, the result of an attempted assassination by shotgun. He also developed his talent for bare-knuckle politics, a shrewd publicity sense, and a reputation for brash, effective repartee. (Two weeks ago, when President-elect Eisenhower informed C.I.O. leaders that as a boy he had put in many a twelve-hour workday, Reuther was ready with a quick comeback. "General," said he, "you should have joined the union...