Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated: "To elect anyone besides Camacho required a miracle. . . ." Wouldn't a little horse sense reveal that it would take a miracle to overcome the following? "Camacho's pre-election backing embraced . . . Cardenas and . . . the Partido de la Revolucion Mexicana, the only nation-wide party, and the CTM, the federation of labor unions which boasts 1,000,000 members." Also . . . the Agrarian party which boasts more than a million members and which also declared for Camacho. A little arithmetic shows that Camacho strength can't help but total over two million votes. The total Mexican vote...
...smoothed out. But he went out of his way to congratulate Oren Root for "a magnificent job." More important, Wendell Willkie pointedly indicated that his campaign will be kept in three distinct channels: 1) the Root clubs, with their appeal to the mass of non-partisan independents who twice elected Franklin Roosevelt, will again elect a President in 1940; 2) a rapidly developing organization for Democratic bolters (see col. 2); 3) Congressman Martin's national committee...
...into execution. I know something about the democratic way of life . . . from experience. . . . I learned about civil liberties, not in textbooks, but in a hard struggle for survival. I know your aspirations and your hopes, because you're the kind of people I grew up with. If you elect me President, you will have someone who understands the everyday problems of everyday people. I have lived them, and I glory in the fact that my route was the hard, not the soft...
...elect anyone besides Camacho required a miracle many times more awesome than the triumph of Wendell Willkie at Philadelphia, not only because of the Cárdenas machine but because of deep-grained habits of chicanery which come from the last four centuries of Mexico's history...
...rumble seat). One of them was supposed to be no less a person than Prince Fumimaro Konoye. British Ambassador Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr was later said to have peace terms for Chiang. Mme. Chiang flew to Hong Kong: she was going to talk peace with Puppet-Elect Wang Ching-wei. The U. S., British and French Ambassadors met in Shanghai; they were talking peace. They met in Chungking; they were talking peace. Last week Shanghai's onetime Mayor Wu Te-chen was in Hong Kong; he too was rumored making peace feelers...