Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other important plank in Mooney's platform concerns "obtaining state and federal funds for harbor development." Mooney said that at present, Nantucket harbor, although picturesque, offers "very few attractions for yachtsmen," a potentially important source of summer income. He said that Governor-elect Furcolo's program includes aid for Mass-achusetts's large tourist trade...
...President, so it seemed to those who knew him best, was handling things Normandy-style, coolly, with a sure and knowing touch. "I am getting tired," he confided to one of his associates one tense day early last week, "of being President, President-elect and Secretary of State...
...memorable fact of 1956 was not that the Republican Party did badly or that the Democratic Party did well. It was that in state after state, district after district, town after town, voters ignored party affiliations to elect candidates of individual local merit (or to defeat candidates of individual demerit...
...Look at me," said the U.S. Representative-elect in a high-pitched, emotional voice. "I am a living proof of America's democracy." Dalip Singh Saund had good cause for his excitement: a native of India, Democrat Saund had just been elected to the House from California's longtime-Republican 29th District in the lush Imperial Valley-where Asians have not always been happily tolerated...
Alexander J. Cella '51, Teaching Fellow in Government and State Assembly-man-elect from Medford, warned the party not to consider the South as "safe areas" any longer, but to consider the implications of the rise of suburban communities in the North. Brinser also asked whether the loss of some of the urban vote has been caused by a movement to the suburbs, or by a shift in income groups...