Word: runoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Townsend Plan). He got on the chicken a la king and mashed potatoes circuit: Kiwanis, Rotary, the Elks. Then, at 31, when the time looked right, Humphrey plunged into politics, aiming high. He ran for mayor of Minneapolis, came in second in a field of ten. In the runoff he lost out by only 5,000 votes...
...contestants had been neck & neck during most of their runoff campaign. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), black-haired Lyndon Johnson was the more dramatic of the two. At 40, he was a seasoned and ambitious man. He had been a janitor, a schoolteacher, a secretary, a New Deal youth administrator (he liked to say that Franklin Roosevelt had "been like a daddy" to him), and had served 5½ terms in Congress. He had been in close races before. He had run for the Senate against W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel in 1941, had been beaten by only...
...been Colombia's chief traffic artery. It was always silt-laden, a river continually chewing at its banks. The coming of steam made things worse; woodburning stern-wheelers stopped to cut into the tropical forests for fuel. That made for greater erosion, and also for a quicker rain runoff, with the result that the river could be high one day, low a few days later. Sandbars piled up so fast that steamers could not follow the same course from one day to the next...
...Idler Players and Radio Radcliffe cooperated with Student Government by holding elections at the same time. Three days of balloting produced two ties, for secretary of the Catholic Club and treasurer of the Pre-Medical Society, both to be settled by runoff elections...
...Shame." That fact gave some hope to Sam Jones this week as he squared off with Earl for the runoff election on Feb. 24. Earl Long had started out by beating Sam Jones in the primaries in 1940, but Jones had nipped him in the runoff. Jones' followers, who included "clean government" men like New Orleans' Mayor deLesseps ("Chep") Morrison, pulled themselves together for "a fight that has got to be made...