Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon after Butler had dried his eyes, Stevenson relented, reversed his decision, and passed the word that the committeemen could go ahead and elect Butler their chairman again. It was a hollow victory. In a private conference with Butler, Stevenson made it clear that Finnegan, not Butler, would be the "architect" of the campaign. Finnegan will set up headquarters in Washington, near those of the national committee, so that there will be no "two-headed monster" like that of 1952, when Stevenson campaign offices in Springfield frequently worked at cross purposes with capital leaders. Butler's only 1956 duties...
Your article was enlightening, but regardless of statistics, polls and all the rest, the fact remains that to elect a Roman Catholic President of the United States would be the same as placing the Government under foreign controls...
...throngs of tense Florentines jammed their way into the city hall's "Room of the 500"to watch the voting, La Pira unconcernedly told the council: "If you elect me I will take it as the will of God and, although fatigued, return to work. If you don't elect me I will also take it as the will of God - in many ways better for me - and vote myself instead to repose, meditation, study and prayer...
Defending the two-party system against those who claim that it does not greatly matter whom we elect as President, Palamountain said that there is an important difference in the two parties' interpretations of the Presidency. He conceded that the men who make the policies in many government offices remain the same regardless of the existing administration, but asserted that Eisenhower has a "Whig" view that Congress is an equal and co-ordinate arm of the Government. Recent Democratic presidents have followed the policy that the Chief Executive is the "Voice of the people" whose business it is to tell...
Decked out in gleaming tropical whites, Panama's President Ricardo Arias led 18 fellow American Presidents and Presidents-elect into a conference room in Panama City this week to consider a five-point declaration of hemisphere principles. The visitors listened as the document was read in English, Spanish and French, voted their approval, then filed out for a public signing...