Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Besides," McLaughlin continued. "I have proven my ability to get votes. As a practical political matter, you want to nominate a winner and not a loser." In 1961 he topped Augustus G. Means, the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor by 209,000 votes. Volpe defeated Joseph Ward, the Democratic candidate for governor, by 139,000 votes...
Scarcely more than an hour after the Supreme Court handed down its decision, an Atlanta citizens' committee filed suit in a federal court in Atlanta to have the county unit system declared unconstitutional. To ward off this new threat, the rural-dominated state legislature met in special session and hastily revised the county unit system, providing additional unit votes for the most populous counties...
Volpe was the only major Republican candidate to be successful in the state's 1960 campaigns, neatly brushing opponent Joseph D. Ward off John Kennedy's coat talls and back into his law practice. He has not yet announced his candidacy for re-election but will certainly do so, and will make a formidable candidate...
Peabody, who alienated a large seg- ment of the state party in his campaign against Joseph D. Ward in the 1960 elections, does not show much promise of success in the convention and even less in the primary...
...blacks resent being dominated by 305,000 whites, and under the proposed new British constitution for Northern Rhodesia, the largely disenfranchised blacks would have a chance to win control -and to break up the Federation. That is what Welensky is trying to ward off; in federal parliamentary elections this week, he is seeking a new white, pro-Federation mandate from all three territories. Says he: "If the Federation were to go under, you would see the lights go out in this part of Africa...