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...Faculty of February 25, I asked that all previous nominees, and certainly those who had already been known to have accepted appointment, be disqualified, and that the slate be wiped completely clean, beginning with only new nominees from both sides. My fear was that the GSD Faculty would simply reelect those who had previously been elected and accepted, not necessarily out of collusion, but simply out of expediency. If this were to happen, I argued, the results of the previous election, which the GSD admits was tainted, would have determined the results of the second and supposedly fair election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARTMAN RESPONDS | 4/14/1972 | See Source »

...brows, compared himself with Edmund Burke and declared himself above politics: "I go where the facts lead, and if partisan politics don't go where they lead, then that's too bad." He grinned at Republican claims that he is the Senate's windiest member: "Reelect me and I'll make more speeches next session-there's so much to be said." He scoffed at reports that he might be in election trouble: "I know of no basis for such stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oregon: The Hare &. the Tortoise | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...campaign for high office. Therefore, when Hall gets back from a month or more of sunning and fishing at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he is expected to move into a high-level Washington job, where he can not only put his talents to work for the Administration that he helped reelect, but prove that he is worth electing himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: An Urge to Run | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...able Republican Senator, just to elect another freshman Democrat, makes no sense. Because it is probable that several of the most objectionable Republicans are due for retirement, there is all the more reason for retaining what is best in the GOP. We still believe, then, that Massachusetts should reelect Senator Lodge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lodge & Landis | 10/28/1952 | See Source »

...city employees, buy $1,200,000 worth of war surplus equipment for $300,000, and appropriate $1,500,000 for permanent veterans housing. The majority of these improvements were passed by a slim 5-4 vote in the nine-man Council. Any decision by Cambridge voters either to reelect the five Councilmen favoring Plan E or to discard managerial government should be made with regard to the merits or demerits of the system and not because of the truculent howls of frustrated politicians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smear They Neighbor | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

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