Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Illinois last week sign painters were at work expunging the words ELECT ORVILLE E. HODGE, YOUR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR STATE AUDITOR from a state Republican Party campaign billboard on a main road outside Springfield. In Springfield and Chicago, as the state budgetary commission began a thorough investigation of the state auditor's office, two grand juries, G-men, Internal Revenue men and representatives of half a dozen other county, state and federal agencies were interrogating witnesses, sifting evidence, and painstakingly piecing together a mosaic of one of the biggest financial scandals in Illinois history...
Firm acceptances were in from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and most important, the U.S. Bolivia, El Salvador and Peru planned to send their presidents-elect. Indications were that at week's end, when the guests get together for the first formal meeting of the two-day conference, at least 17 chief executives and presidents-elect* would be on hand to lend glitter to the largest collection of heads of state ever to baffle a protocol officer in charge of dinner seating...
...project in Ungava and other U.S.-financed enterprises were "giveaways to foreigners." The maneuver boomeranged on the Liberals. It merely drew the voters' attention to the province's vast industrial development and general prosperity in recent years-and gave them one more convincing reason to re-elect Maurice Duplessis...
Already credited with a successful administration based on encouragement of local and foreign private enterprise, free currency exchange and a big public-works program, he could now take full pride in having brought off a fair and free election. President-elect Prado, as a conservative banker and industrialist, promptly announced that he would carry on Odría's economic policies. In foreign policy, Prado-whose greatest pride is that as President in 1942 he made Peru the first of the South American nations to declare war on the Axis-can be expected to side firmly with...
...mandatory retirement age of 65 in September. Long's successor in the presidency: James W. Foley, 44. Long and Foley, a young top-management team, will captain the third largest U.S. international oil company (behind Standard Oil of N.J. and Gulf in oil reserves and gross income). Chairman-elect Long graduated from Annapolis ('26), joined Texaco after a hitch with the Navy. In World War II he saw Navy duty in London, helped Allied petroleum experts direct the flow of Middle East oil to strategic areas...