Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outshining the Sun. Tommy D'Alesandro's slogan was: "Elect a big-league mayor!" His campaign cards simply listed the Orioles' home-game schedule and the claim: "50 Years of Progress in Eight Years." For his first two terms, he claimed a lot of progress: 87 new schools, firehouses and other facilities, 1,400 miles of new streets, 21,947 new street lights. His son had been acquitted of all charges, and Tommy D'Alesandro shrugged off the old scandals. "No one," he said modestly, "is infallible. I haven't done everything right...
...Towns can elect French members, subject to confirmation by the Bey of Tunis. But in no case will French representation be more than three-sevenths...
...Louis Wolfson it was a key round in his fight for control of Montgomery Ward & Co. The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in a suit filed by Wolfson that Ward's staggered-director system, by which only three of the nine directors were elected each year, is unconstitutional. Thus the highest court in the state of Illinois upheld a lower court decision (TIME, Feb. 14) that all nine Ward directors must be elected each year, and wrecked Chairman Sewell Avery's built-in majority (i.e., six directors with unexpired terms) on the company's board of directors...
Also in the preliminaries, Captain elect Phil Burnaman lost to Arthur Keith of Oregon State when he was pinned in 8:31. Lone Eli entrant Arthur Theriault was decisioned, 12 to 2, in his first round match...
...federation headed by Meany. But even if his ambition had outrun his convictions, Reuther had little practical chance to stand aloof from Meany's vigorous wooing. The antagonism of the Steelworkers' Dave McDonald and some other C.I.O. leaders toward Reuther was undisguised. The C.I.O. could elect reunion with the A.F.L.-or fragmentation. Whatever the mixture of Reuther's motives, he worked honestly and actively with Meany for a merger that might mean his own partial eclipse...