Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minnesota, Robert Forsythe, 40, returned from his job as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Eisenhower Administration to be come fulltime state G.O.P. chairman, has put voting breakdowns and party membership lists on IBM cards. In one precinct-leader training conference he enlisted 150 new captains...
...national need than because the internal state of American politics renders it very opportune. Republican leaders are running their party on "stop-gap" measures. As was pointed out in a special study of the Republican Party published last week, the party is in complete organizational disorder, from the understaffed precinct offices to the ideological chaos at the top. In effect, Romney's most immediate appeal is not to the people, but to the Republican leaders; it is they who must yearn most for the radical simplification of politics a Lochinvar-figure promises...
...Every precinct, every block and every apartment house should have its own dedicated Republican workers for sound government, and each such worker must be properly joined with his next higher superior until the entire party can operate as a unit. We need intelligent, personable, dedicated and energetic leaders. From one election to the next, each of us must help to inform and to recruit and on every election day make certain that all Republicans and all the people that we have reached and educated will be on hand to cast their votes...
Philippine politics gets much of its murderous passion from the compadre system, under which politicians adopt the offspring of their constituents as godchildren. Top politicos like Macapagal and Garcia are compadres to hundreds of peasant families who eagerly give their services as bodyguards, precinct workers, fund raisers and propagandists as well as voters. In return, the politicians are expected to keep their adoptive kinsmen out of jail, find places for them on the national payroll. For the country as a whole, the compadre system usually means blood feuds and built-in graft...
Parish House, 3 Church St.--ward eight, precinct four...