Word: electioneered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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The Sure Thing. The committee was staggered by Willie's report of election winnings in 1948. Said he: "I didn't win too much on horses that year. But I had a sure thing going for me. I had President Truman ... I win $10,000 on that Dewey...
Governor Tom Dewey kept his famous pre-election promise. When failing old (74) Republican Joe Hanley stepped aside last September so that Dewey could run for a third term, Dewey made "an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement" with Hanley to give him a state job in case he failed to win a...
Nobody was more surprised at this discovery than Happy himself. The main business of the club owners' meeting in St. Petersburg, Fla. last week was supposed to be 1) abolition of the impractical "bonus rule," which had loaded some clubs with overpriced players,* and 2) the re-election of...
Matter of Ideals. Lucien, like most young wrigglers, quickly learns to navigate the muck. With great credit to his reputation, he manages to hush a scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as...
Tsiang rose to his present position of China's Permanent Representative to the U.N. from his election as Chairman of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East in June, 1947. He represented China on the Security Council and in the U.N. General Assembly during 1947 and 1948...