Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrested men turned out to be wealthy conservatives in opposition to Peron's regime. They were hauled off to the 17th precinct station, where the electric needle is one of the approved methods for extracting information. Soon they implicated other Buenos Aires socialites. who apparently thought amateurish bomb-throwing would somehow shake Peron (actually it seems to have strengthened his regime). The cops arrested about 225 other solid Argentine citizens-"oligarchs," the press called them-seizing many plain and fancy weapons (military rifles, big-game guns, nitroglycerin). The police reported that the "oligarchs" had ordered 1,000 identically...
Herbert Brownell, once an aspirant to a career in journalism, knows how to organize good political reporting. Before the precinct caucuses in Texas last May, his information convinced him that the Eisenhower forces would have a majority, but the Taft forces would probably bolt and hold rump sessions. Before the Texas cloud was even sighted on the national political scene, Brownell had decided that Texas was the crucial G.O.P. state, and had flown there to map his strategy. He called the signals on the Texas battle, and it proved to be the beginning of the Eisenhower breakthrough...
...first trip away from Hollywood in more than ten years, oldtime Cinemactress Marion Davies arrived in Richmond, Va. with her husband Horace Brown to meet his family. One of the points of interest was the First Precinct station, former headquarters for Brown when he pounded a beat on the Richmond force back in the early 1930's. Dressed in diamonds and a brand new, $15,000 mink coat (her old sable wrap, said Brown, was just too heavy "for my little pixie to carry around"), Marion went on a tourof the lockup. At the sight of some 30 smalltime...
...Oveta Gulp Hobby, editor and executive vice president of the Houston Post, head of the Women's Army Corps during World War II, who announced for Ike four months before the political conventions, published a "political primer" which was instrumental in getting pro-Eisenhower Texans into the G.O.P. precinct conventions last spring. During the campaign, she headed the national Democrats-for-Eisenhower movement...
...Midwest, Ike swept across all the traditional political boundaries. The farmers of Ohio's Franklin township were swinging Republican by 3 to 1 ; a heavily labor precinct in Dayton split right down the middle: Ike 245, Stevenson 245. Ike's Ohio majority...