In the Romanian general election elections of 1946, the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ) employed widespread intimidation tactics and electoral fraud to obtain 80 percent of the vote and, thereafter, eliminated the role of the centrist parties and forced mergers, the result of which was that, by 1948, most non-Communist politicians were either executed, in exile or in prison.

In 1917-19, Federico Tinoco Granados ruled as a dictator, and, in 1948, José Figueres Ferrer led an armed uprising in the wake of a disputed presidential election.

General Tiburcio Carías Andino was elected in 1932, he later on called a constituent assembly that allowed him to be reelected, and his rule became more authoritarian until an election in 1948.

In Berlin, after citizens strongly rejected communist candidates in an election, in June 1948, the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin, the portion of Berlin not under Soviet control, cutting off all supply of food and other items.

Senator Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll in 1948 on a platform of implementing Social SecurityThe first election under the new constitution saw a struggle for dominance between the Jersey Democratic Movement and the Jersey Progressive Party, led by Cyril Le Marquand.

However, by the time of the 1948 election, he had become disillusioned with Harry S. Truman, and voted for Thomas E. Dewey, his " first non-Democratic vote ".

A United Nations – supervised election held in 1948 led to the creation of separate Korean governments for the two occupation zones, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, and the Republic of Korea in the south.

The resolution from the UN General Assembly called for a UN-supervised general election in Korea, but with the North rejecting this proposition, a general election for a Constitutional Assembly was held in the South only, in May 1948.

* November 2 – United States presidential election, 1948: Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Republican Thomas E. Dewey and ' Dixiecrat ' Strom Thurmond.

** In the Hungarian parliamentary election, Hungary's first multiparty election since 1948, the Hungarian Democratic Forum wins the most seats.

* November 7 – U. S. presidential election, 1972: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in a landslide ( the election had the lowest voter turnout since 1948, with only 55 percent of the electorate voting ).

He told President Truman in May 1948, " If you ( recognize the state of Israel ) and if I were to vote in the election, I would vote against you.

Breaking decisively with its Communist and Socialist coalition partners under pressure from Harry Truman in May 1947, the party went on to win a decisive victory in 1948 general election with the support of the Catholic Church and the United States.

In the 1948 general election the party had its best result ever ( 48. 5 % and the absolute majority in the Italian Parliament.

The United States presidential election of 1948 was the greatest election upset in American history.

In Italy, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party broke away from the Italian Socialist Party in 1947, when this latter joined the Soviet-funded Italian Communist Party to prepare the decisive general election of 1948.

President Truman holds up the erroneous Chicago Daily Tribune headline on November 3, 1948, the day after the election.

Dewey was the Republican candidate in the 1948 presidential election in which, in almost unanimous predictions by pollsters and the press, he was projected as the winner.

After working as Editor of the Church Times from 1948 to 1949, Heath worked as a management trainee at the merchant bankers Brown, Shipley & Co. until his election as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bexley in the February 1950 general election.

Godse approached Gandhi on January 30, 1948 during the evening prayer.

A few years later he approached the surrealist group in 1948, then the College of Pataphysique in 1954.

* 1948: Slater begins " The current year is the first since the war in which the department has approached normal operation.

By 1948, toymakers and department stores had been approached with requests for Howdy Doody dolls and similar items.

Resurgent Afrikaner nationalism was an important factor in the growth of the National Party ( NP ) as the 1948 elections approached.

In 1948, director Billy Wilder approached Negri to appear as Norma Desmond in the film Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ), after Mae Murray, Mae West, and Mary Pickford declined the role.

Then in the summer of 1948, Muchnick was approached by Iowa ’ s Pinky George and Minnesota ’ s Tony Stecher about forming a new wrestling union.

As Soviet spy networks were compromised in this period, connection with Soviet intelligence was temporarily ended, but resumed in 1948, when the Rezidentura ascertained that Cohen could be approached.

In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman, and in 1957, after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956, his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments, although they did strip him temporarily of his patronage.

Other more recent political figures educated at Columbia include U. S President Barack Obama, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former U. S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, former chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Alan Greenspan, U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and U. S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr .. Dwight D. Eisenhower served as the thirteenth president of Columbia University from 1948 to 1953.

In 1948, Eisenhower said he was " one of the most deeply religious men I know " though unattached to any " sect or organization ".

Eisenhower was a golf enthusiast later in life, and joined the Augusta National Golf Club in 1948.

In 1948, Eisenhower became President of Columbia University, a premier private university in New York.

* 1948 – David Eisenhower, American author and professor

The Chief of Staff of the United States Army, General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower, met with Groves on 30 January 1948 to evaluate his performance.

From 1912 through 1948, the county remained predominantly in the Democratic party, although Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower took the county in the 1950s.

He impersonated FDR on The March of Time and Dwight D. Eisenhower on Living 1948.

In September 1948 Eisenhower wrote the foreword to Wilson's book of wartime memoirs.

MacArthur, however, favored U. S. Senator Robert A. Taft, Sr., of Ohio, who lost the nomination to Willkie in 1940, to Dewey in 1948, and to Dwight Eisenhower in 1952.

As a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention, he had tried to draft General Dwight D. Eisenhower for President, calling President Harry S. Truman " incompetent.

In 1948, Fox obtained the exclusive rights to create a television series called Crusade in Europe, based on the 1948 book, Crusade in Europe written by Dwight D. Eisenhower and published by Doubleday.

During the Second World War, while promotion and fame came to " Ike ," his wife lived in Washington, D. C. After he became president of Columbia University in 1948, the Eisenhowers purchased a farm ( now the Eisenhower National Historic Site ) at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Movements to draft five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower to run as a candidate for President of the United States appeared in both the Democratic and Republican parties in 1948 and again during 1951.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower ( born July 5, 1948 ) is the younger daughter of 37th U. S. President Richard M. Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon, and sister to Patricia Nixon Cox.

This group included Neil McElroy himself, who headed the company after Deupree retired in 1948, and who in 1957 became Secretary of Defense under President Eisenhower.

State funerals have been held in Washington D. C. for William Henry Harrison ( 1841 ), Zachary Taylor ( 1850 ), Abraham Lincoln ( 1865 ), Thaddeus Stevens ( 1868 ), James A. Garfield ( 1881 ), William McKinley ( 1901 ), Warren Harding ( 1920 ), the Unknown Soldier of World War I ( 1921 ), William Howard Taft ( 1930 ), John J. Pershing ( 1948 ), the Unknown Soldiers of World War II and the Korean War ( 1958 ), John F. Kennedy ( 1963 ), Douglas MacArthur ( 1964 ), Herbert Hoover ( 1964 ), Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1969 ), Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1973 ), Ronald Reagan ( 2004 ), and Gerald Ford ( 2006-2007 ).

He gave lukewarm support to Harry S. Truman in 1948, saying the Democrats should nominate Dwight D. Eisenhower instead ; but he did not support his friend Henry A. Wallace that year.

Eisenhower Was My Boss, her 1948 memoir of the war years, made no mention of an affair.

When I wrote Eisenhower Was My Boss in 1948, I ommitted many things, changed some details, glossed over others to disguise as best I could the intimacy that had grown between General Eisenhower and me.

* Summersby, Kay, Eisenhower Was My Boss ( 1948 ) New York: Prentice Hall ; ( 1949 ) Dell mapback