Word: electioneering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The storm broke on him just before a municipal election in August 1943. District Attorney Hogan, who had tapped Costello's telephone, reported the conversation which had ensued when one Thomas Aurelio called Costello the morning after Aurelio had been nominated for New York's supreme court:
The four-year-old Parliament had just disposed of the last big item on Labor's 1945 election program: nationalization of the British steel industry. The House of Commons and the House of Lords, long at loggerheads over the steel bill (TIME, June 21, 1948), had worked out a...
Churchill bluntly challenged Prime Minister Clement Attlee to send Parliament home and set the election for early in 1950. Attlee, slumped on the government front bench and looking funereal in his black coat and neat striped trousers, seemed not to hear. But London political dopesters now think the election will...
Even in the green-carpeted Commons chamber there was no air of anticipation. Although the diplomatic corps had been told that Parliament would get its first review of Canadian foreign policy since last summer's general election, only four foreign diplomats showed up.
Meanwhile a final official count of the School Committee election results on Monday showed that CCA-backed Robert Amory, Jr. '35, professor of Law, had lost first place in the vote to James J. Cassidy, an Independent. Others elected to the School Committee were: Pearl K. Wise, CCA; Thomas H...