Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into politics," the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told its members a fortnight ago-its first appeal for businessmen to work directly in political organizations. Chamber President William A. McDonnell advised them just how: "We must roll up our sleeves and get to work at the precinct and ward levels where political decisions are made and officeholders chosen." McDonnell's words underlined a significant change in business thinking about politics. In the past, many a businessman and corporation has played a part in making political decisions and choosing officeholders. But the influence has more often been exerted behind the scenes...
Kansas' former State Democratic Chairman, Marvin A. ("Mike") Harder, 36, professor of political science at the Municipal University of Wichita, last week lost his own precinct committeeman's seat to Donald E. Anderson, 23. Winner Anderson's oddest qualification: he earned his political science degree last June after racking up a high grade in the political parties course taught by Professor Harder...
...make certain changes for the better, such as no drinking champagne for breakfast and fewer bad cheques fobbed off on temperamental bootleggers. But they were wonderful years in a wonderful world of Mercer runabouts . . . Upmanns from Leavitt & Peirce and the reasonably low bail conventionally set at Boston's Precinct Station 16 for Harvard undergraduates...
Mutiny on the Bounty. In West Bountiful, Utah, Republican Leone Newton filed to run against her husband, Democrat Charles A. Newton, for precinct justice of the peace...
...Ninth Roxbury Precinct those arrested were not allowed to use telephones. When the host's wife tried to call the baby sitter, police grabbed her and then her husband who rushed to help, Krosney said. A brawl ensued, according to Krosney, in which the police clubbed the party goers rather liberally, and hit some of them when no resistance was being offered...