Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FRESHMAN REPRESENTATIVES: In previous years the Union Committee has sent two representatives to the council without vote. Now, if the constitution is ratified, the Union Committee will appoint two men to serve with vote during the spring term. At the end of the year the freshman class will elect two representatives to serve the first half of their sophomore year, also with vote...
...hurt. When the final count was in, Macy had been beaten, by 126 votes, by Democrat-Liberal Ernest Greenwood, a retired schoolteacher. Macy, running for his third term in the House, angrily demanded a recount. It was the first time in 36 years that the district had failed to elect a Republican Congressman. Dewey himself carried the district by 59,000 votes...
...United States gets its ballots today. Its citizens will choose one-third of their Senate and their entire House of Representatives. They will also elect numerous officials in each separate state, men with whom, by and large, only residents of the state involved can be familiar...
...Arizona, voters were apparently getting ready to elect a woman as governor. Democrat Ana Frohmiller was so far ahead of Republican Howard Pyle that Democratic bettors could find no takers, even at odds...
Democrats had thought that, more or less unnoticed in the general hustle, they could elect "Tubbo" Gilbert sheriff of Cook County. That was before Tubbo's Republican rival, one John E. Babb, got busy and Chicago newspapers took a scandalized second look at the amazing career of 200-lb. Policeman Tubbo...