Word: precinct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hockey team without a coach for its Boston Garden appearance.), the campaign is deadly serious. The Mayor, for instance, means it when he says that the CCA is run by "carpetbaggers," and that he could do as well in getting out the votes if he had a ward and precinct organization financed by payoffs from Cambridge industries. CCA leaders, Shaplin in particular, are just as bitter about the Mayor and his treatment of them in the School Committee...
Life's biggest moment came for Ed McCarthy last year before the television cameras at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. As a longtime Republican, a hard-working precinct worker, an alternate delegate to the convention-and a member in good standing of the United Steelworkers-Ed was picked out of the crowd to second the nomination of Dwight Eisenhower for President...
...time blasting the "rump session" attended by "a pitiful minority of wild-eyed saboteurs." Chairman Evans is "a well-known enemy of this administration" and Vice Chairman McClellan "the greatest constitutional acrobat of all times," and both "might as well prepare for a battle royal, right down to the precinct level...
...Oklahoma history. In 1952 Bulloch was warned again, and the Mayes County prosecutor was killed during a gambling investigation on which they had worked together. After he reported buying absentee ballots simply by posing as a candidate. Oklahoma's National Guard was called out to guard every precinct in five counties in the primary election...
Hardly had the sun set on Election Day 1956 before Connecticut Republicans reached for their cordial glasses and Democrats for their indigestion pills. From precinct after precinct came the news that Dwight Eisenhower was rolling up a massive plurality; in the final result, the G.O.P. made perhaps its most impressive showing in little Connecticut, racking up 63.7% against 1952's 55.7%, with U.S. Senator Prescott Bush and most other state candidates sailing home on Ike's coattails. Last week the President hand-picked-and the National Committee elected-for Republican national chairman the man who is entitled...