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Politics & elections, 1954

1,300 stories in Sydney's papers · page 59 of 65

Parliament FEDERAL

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 October 1954 · page 2

The Senate yesterday passed the Sales Tax (Exemptions and Classifications) Bill and nine supplementary sales-tax bills, the…

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Parliament FEDERAL

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 2

The Senate yesterday passed the Commonwealth Aid Roads Bill and the Flags Bill. The Northern Territory…

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C.W.A. at Field Day Funds for Queen Candidate

Nepean Times · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 1

Members of Penrith branch of the Country Women's Association and of the branch's Younger Set attended the field day…

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"Back Ike" Is Republican Cry In U.S. Mid-Term Election

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 2

The American election campaign, now entering its final stage before the polling day on November 2, has become a contest of extraordinary interest, and its result seems likely to have far wider repercussions than are normal with mid-term…

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Don lddon's New York Diary Queen Mother arrives ... Visit to French Canada ... Wild election charges ... Mae West muscles in

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 9

MANY New Yorkers who greeted the Queen Mother on Tuesday, remembered…

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Candidates on Community Hotels

The Observer · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 1

Just for the record, we asked Candidates for the Caringbah By Election their policy regarding the establishment of…

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Parliament FEDERAL

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 2

In the Senate yesterday, the Bankruptcy Bill was introduced and the second reading debate was adjourned…

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Wheat Men Want Board Election

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 1

The Wheatgrowers' Union wants an election for N.S.W. Wheat Board members and several revisions to the constitution of the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation…

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Les Elections Americaines

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 29 October 1954 · page 1

Les elections du 2 novembre aux Etats-Unis ne provoquent pas. ni dans les quarante-huit etats ni a l'etranger, une pression comparable a celle que suscitait, voici deux ans, le duel Truman-Elsenhower, Le fievre ne reparaitra qu'a la…

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Television puppets and love songs in a flat-wallet election

The Sun-Herald · Sunday 31 October 1954 · page 48

Three puppets, breaking into the daily dose of slapstick vaudeville, peeped, via television, into millions of American homes this week. They were an intelligent…

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Big Homey for Nz Cup Candidate

Daily Mirror · Monday 1 November 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.--Melbourne Cup fancy Master Proven, in an Australia-wide move today, was backed to win between £75,000 and £100,000. One bookmaker said: "If…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Tuesday, November 2, 1954 U.S. Election Battle for Control of Congress

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 2

A number of brave or foolhardy men, forgetting what happened in 1948 when the political prophets did not…

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Bang goes a Cuban election

The Sun · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 15

HAVANA, Monday.--Cubans today voted in a one-man presidential election marked by…

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Ike Faces Test at Elections American Congress poll today

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Mon.--Millions of Americans tomorrow will give their verdict at the polls on President Eisenhower's…

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After Today's U.s. Election... Will "Ike" Be Flogging a Dead Horse?

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 22

Today the people of the United States will vote to elect a new House of Representatives and a…

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After Today's U.s. Election... Will "Ike Be Flogging a Dead Horse?

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 22

Today the people of the United States will vote to elect a new House of Representatives and a…

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After Today's U.s. Election... Will "Ike" Be Flogging a Dead Horse?

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 22

Today the people of the United States will vote to elect a new House of Representatives and a…

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After Today's U.s. Election... Will "Ike" Be Flogging a Dead Horse?

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 22

Today the people of the United States will vote to elect a new House of Representatives and a…

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After Today's U.s. Election... Will "Ike" Be Flogging a Dead Horse?

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 22

Today the people of the United States will vote to elect a new House of Representatives and a…

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After Today's U.s. Election Will "Ike" Be Flogging a Dead Horse?

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 2 November 1954 · page 22

Today the people of the United States will vote to elect a new House of Representatives and a…

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