Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fully intending to take over city hall. Commissioner-elect Murray also laid siege to the statehouse, announced that Governor Meyner should give him control of Hudson County patronage. Brash Newcomer Murray had Meyner over a barrel. Meyner is running for re-election this year, and badly needs the 70,000 vote plurality Hudson County could give him. Moreover, Meyner, a potential Democratic presidential candidate for 1960. needs to be re-elected by a handsome margin if he intends to stay in the big time. Says Murray, waiting for the governor to desert Kenny and come his way: "Meyner...
...Federal Court to be fingerprinted, bounced out again on $5,000 bail. That done, he was off to Atlantic City to address 50 officers of the Teamsters' Eastern Conference. Said Dave: "If you find anyone who can do a better job than I have done, go ahead and elect him. I merely want to be judged on what's been done for the international union during my administration...
Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's barefaced drive to re-elect himself President of Colombia piled up enough opposition last week to bring it to a shaky halt. Joined to thwart the strongman's second-term ambitions, the Roman Catholic Church under Crisanto Cardinal Luque, the newly united Liberal and Conservative Parties and the belligerent university students took direct action. Caught by surprise, the President hesitated. Then he moved what he said were 35,000 troops into Bogotá to regain control...
...board of advisers as any corporation going-former Senator William Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna M. Rosenberg, Psychologist George Stoddard, President Robert Hutchins of the Fund for the Republic, and Social Scientist Ralph Tyler. Last week it was sporting another big name: Chairman-elect Adlai E. Stevenson...
...Marilyn Monroe Productions Inc., tightly surrounded by a grey cashmere sweater and four lawyers, called the stockholders' meeting to order. Opposite President Monroe sat M.M.P.'s vice president and minority stockholder (49-4%), sharp little Photographer Milton H. Greene. The agenda: President Monroe merely wished to elect a new board, and in the process to dump Vice President Greene. In 1954 Marilyn, lonely and self-exiled from Hollywood, was befriended by enterprising Promoter Greene. M.M.P.'s contract called for a pooling of their talents and earnings for a period of seven years...