Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palace. Training his slingshot on the Democratic machine, Wonderboy Sagan at 26 helped elect Independent State Representative Abner Mikva, who was voted "outstanding freshman" of 1957 by the Illinois legislature. Taking on the Chicago Theological Seminary, the Herald last year leaped into the fight that saved Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's famed Robie House from demolition to make way for a dormitory. As circulation hit 8,500-350% more than the old Herald-Publisher Sagan was able to say: "The paper is worth ten times what we paid...
Last week the Foreign Ministers of "Little Europe" met in Paris to elect officers for the Common Market and Euratom. They also chose directors for two other six-nation agencies, the thriving Coal and Steel Community and the new billion-dollar European Investment Bank. But they could not settle on a single city for their capital. Luxembourg's white-mustached old Premier and Foreign Minister Joseph Bech put up such a stubborn fight to keep the European Coal and Steel Community headquarters (and its $6,000,000 yearly payroll) for his tiny country that the founding fathers could only...
GUATEMALA, Jan. 19--Guatamalans tried again today to elect a successor to President Carlos Castillo Armas, assassinated last July by one of his guards. An election three months ago was nullified after bloody rioting...
...candidates for election as president of the Student Council have advocated greater cooperation of the group with the House Committees during the coming year. The Council will elect officers tonight...
...apparent that the American electorate made a mistake in electing Eisenhower instead of Stevenson in 1956. Stevenson should be elected President in 1960, but to be elected, he must first be nominated. The politicians who nominate often lag behind the people who elect. I hope that the Democratic politicians do not compound the past failure of the electorate by refusing to give the American people the democratic opportunity of correcting an error...