Word: slates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This time, instead of overt defiance, the liberals concentrated on tactical victories and "a moderate, measured show of strength," as Slonimski put it. The large Warsaw chapter of the union voted down most of the government slate of potential delegates, and sent a more independent and distinguished group to Lodz. At the convention, a total of seven liberals-including Zbigniew Herbert, Poland's leading lyric poet-were elected to the 24-man executive committee that had previously been composed entirely of conservatives. Jerzy Putrament, who for 20 years has been the party's politruk, or watchdog, within...
Chisholm's Ninth District slate includes Patricia Bonner-Lyons, unsuccessful candidate for School Committee in Cambridge last year; Mel King, former head of the Urban League in Boston; and Byron D. Rushing...
...weeks ago Iowa's Democratic caucus gave him 23% of the vote, and last week Arizona's awarded him 20% of its delegate slate. Neither outcome was enough to lead the crowded field, but the figures were more than four times the 3% to 5% share of voters the pollsters normally consign to him. Moreover, in both states McGovern was able to score significantly by running his kind of campaign-pushing issues, not personalities, and relying on a carefully worked-out series of proposals, not rhetoric, to attract voters...
...winner with 38% of the vote, exploited the advantage of the front runner and the support of prominent Arizona Democrats; New York Mayor John Lindsay, glamorous and well bankrolled, ran a media miniblitz-he was the only candidate to advertise on TV-and carried 24% of the delegate slate. McGovern hewed to his South Dakota style of street campaigning: introduction, handshake, brief chat-a one-on-one soft sell meant to convey concern if not charisma...
...Heimert, Maass, Mason, to name just a few--suggests that the latter motive was paramount in at least some nominators' minds. Assumedly to balance this possible tendency, I was given the very important right to place names into nomination myself. But this rights was never accorded me, and the slate therefore consisted, and the final committee was formed, of persons of the GSD Faculty's choosing. The election procedure called for limiting the persons asked to serve to those 20 receiving the most votes. This stipulation assumedly introduced some additional modicum of fairness to an inherently unfair nominating procedure: given...