Word: slate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surveys, studies, etc., usually during election years, some of which were later implemented. Its first political victory was won with the aid of obliging landlords, many of them absentee landlords, who inserted pink slips with their rent bills warning tenants that their rents would increase greatly if the CCA slate were not elected...
California, on June 5, is considered the most important of all to Stevenson. As one of the latest primaries, it gives him an opportunity to close his pre-convention campaign with a bang in a state that Kefauver carried easily in 1952 (against a slate headed by Attorney General "Pat" Brown). San Francisco Attorney De Lancey C. Smith says he has been instructed by Kefauver to get together a statewide organization for next year's fight. California National Committeeman Paul Ziffren is certain that Stevenson will enter the primary. "I would be shocked if he backed out," says Ziffren...
...session were able to demonstrate good government only as a minority of four on the nine-man Council. This year, the CCA is trying to regain the majority control it had held for a decade before 1953. It has screened all candidates and come up with a non-partisan slate of ten, including its four incumbents Edward A. Crane, Joseph A. deGuglielmo, Marcus Morton, and Hyman Pill. The CCA has also endorsed Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, who has just completed a successful term on the School Committee, as well as Edward G. Bellis, Martin T. Camacho, Bradlee F. Clarke, Arthur...
...merit system and other accomplishments--like the recruitment of many new teachers and the building of new school plants--are difficult to change into good slogans. But good candidates can often compensate for a lack of good slogans, and the CCA slate this year contains six candidates worthy of election...
...management, hands down. Biggest help came from the SEC. In an unusual move, it barred the votes of the independent stockholders group because of "false and misleading statements" and because it did not fully disclose its membership; thus the Libby management's nine-director slate was elected without contest. Meanwhile, the independents filed an appeal to have the ruling set aside...