Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator, Crump had dumped servile Tom Stewart, a politician with no great vote-getting appeal, in favor of a man with still less: an obscure, hill-country judge named John A. Mitchell. Stung into independence, Stewart ran anyway. But neither candidate was a match for hardworking, respected Congressman Estes Kefauver...
Tennessee voters, casting the biggest primary vote in the state's history, gave the last of the big city bosses a terrific pasting. They gleefully smothered his handpicked candidates and nominated two of his archenemies-Gordon Browning for Governor and Estes Kefauver for U.S. Senator...
...better campaigner than either Stewart or Mitchell, Kefauver won large audiences all over the state. Labor supported him for his vote against the Taft-Hartley bill; business and professional men liked his courageous stand against Crump. When the votes were in, Kefauver topped Tom Stewart by 34,000 votes; Crumpet John Mitchell ran a dismal third. Shelby County, which used to roll up 60,000 votes for a Crump candidate, gave him only...
...Missouri, four-time State Auditor Forrest Smith, who helped himself get re-elected by reminding voters that he was the man who mailed out the old-age pension checks, won the Democratic nomination for governor. Always a big vote-getter, plodding, affable Forrest Smith was rated a good bet to pull more votes in Missouri than Harry Truman. His Republican opponent: hefty, cautious Murray Thompson, operator of a small-town furniture store and speaker of the house...
When Sammartino rose in the Chamber last June to denounce the President for a series of articles he had written for the U.S. press (TIME, July 12), he was asking for real trouble. Under Argentina's battered constitution, members of Congress may be expelled by a two-thirds vote for "gross misconduct." Sammartino's Peronista enemies decided that "gross misconduct" included offenses against presidential dignity...