Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the lesser winter sports, wrestling fortunes blow hot and cold, but they have been blowing warmer of recent date. Captain-elect Johnny Lee climaxed a brilliant season last year by winning the 125-pound National A.A.U. title in Iowa. Although they also fall into the minor sport category, superior squash teams annually arise from the College courts, and last year's team rose as high as the national championship. The individual national champion of this non-spectator cross between tennis and handball was senior Henry Foster, third of a line of Harvard captain brothers, and the runner...
...gets. Ignored as a poor relation, both inside the factory and out, he drifts from loneliness into an affair with a plain, forlorn girl (Shelley Winters) who works on the same assembly line. Suddenly, his luck turns. He gets a promotion, and with it an entree to the socially elect circle in which his wealthy relatives move. He falls giddily in love with the queenliest young beauty of the set (Elizabeth Taylor), and she with...
Speaking at the University of Denver, Ex-Congressman Robert Ramspeck of Georgia, now chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission, had a suggestion pointing in the opposite direction: elect two Congressmen from each district-one to legislate and the other to pork-barrel for the folks back home...
...faced dismissal. The Army's botched handling of the dismissal itself left cadets confused about their status and their future. Technically, their dismissal was "under honorable conditions," though in fact they were branded otherwise. The cadets' case was best put by Harold Loehlein, honor cadet, captain-elect of the 1951 football team, arid president of the first class. Said...
...Heard a subcommittee on elections excoriate the "despicable 'back street' type of campaign" which helped elect Baltimore Republican John Marshall Butler, unhorsed Maryland's Democratic Senator Millard Tydings. There wasn't enough legal evidence to warrant kicking Butler out of the Senate, said the committee, but in the future such "defamation, slander and libel" by a candidate's agents should be made reason enough. Joe McCarthy had been "actively interested" in the Butler campaign and the subcommittee thought a "sitting Senator" involved in another's campaign shenanigans should be made just as liable...