Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consequence, fantastic amounts are often spent for the election of Senators and Representatives. One expert estimates that, in populous states, over $5 million may be required to elect a Senator. Federal law condones expenditures of one-tenth this size. The task of finding campaign funds often places the newly-elected Senator at the service of some interest group that has supported him, whether or not he obtained the money in payment for future services...
...weeks of the most careful and devoutly prayerful consideration." Then, reversing the formula that another general, William Tecumseh Sherman, used in 1884, he said: "I have decided that if the Republican Party chooses to renominate me I shall accept the nomination. Thereafter, if the people of this country should elect me I shall continue to serve them in the office I now hold. I have concluded that I should permit the American people to have the opportunity to register their decision in this matter...
...does the renowned Stevenson with, which asserts itself primarily in the straight political speeches with quips like: "The Republicans have been in office for twenty months--or long enough to elect Maine's first Democratic governor in twenty years." There is also Mr. Stevenson's less famous but equally impressive facility with the serious metaphor, which allows him to describe the sub-standard, depressed areas of the American economy as "stagnant pools into which the tide of prosperity has failed to flow...
When the Russians recently agreed to dismantle their naval base at Porkkala and return the area to Finland, their immediate aim was to persuade the Finns to elect a pro-Russian successor to old (85) President Juho Paasikivi, who is the only non-Communist chief of state to hold the Soviet Order of Lenin. Last week the newly chosen Electoral College picked pliable Premier Urho Kekkonen, 55, who has stood close behind Paasikivi in tiny, democratic Finland's enforced dealings with the Russian Communists...
Union leaders threatened to call a general strike for March 1, the day Kekkonen becomes President. The President-elect's first move was to pick his defeated rival, Social Democrat Karl-August Fagerholm, to form the new government. Finns took this as fresh evidence that Kekkonen is his country's shrewdest politician. If the unions strike, they will be striking against a Socialist Premier...