Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over & over, the men & women massed in the Caracas bull ring chanted "Caldera si, Gallegos no!" Venezuela's chief opposition party, the right-wing COPEI (Committee for Independent Electoral Political Organization), had at last found a candidate for the presidential election on Dec. 14. Against famed 63-year-old Novelist Romulo Gallegos, candidate of the ruling Acción Democrática, would be pitched young (31), burly (6 ft., 200 lbs.) Rafael Caldera, one of COPEI's founders...
...Gallegos (TIME, Sept. 29), Caldera last week picked the Caracas bull ring for the opening speech of his campaign. After the cheers had rolled away, he outlined his party's "Social Christianity" program. "The rich should be less rich, the poor less poor," he said. He asked more rights for labor. Pumping away with his right arm, he attacked the Marxism of Acción Democrática, called for "social peace" to replace the class struggle. Caldera, whose party has church support (it accuses Acción of being anti-Catholic), plumped for a concordat that would abolish...
...designated two people to run things for him: Ohio Representative Clarence J. Brown, bull-throated, bull-necked newspaper publisher who once directed a Knox-for-President movement, was tactical director of the 1946 G.O.P. election campaign, and claims the smelt-eating championship of the U.S. Congress; and Mrs. Katharine K. Brown (no kin), vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, founder of Dayton's Junior League, member of the D.A.R. and Colonial Dames of America, and vice president of the Ohio Yellow...
...years. His specialty is battering buildings apart with a 2,800-lb. steel ball. The ball swings from a cable at the end of a 100-ft. boom, and Big Jim, by deftly whirling his crane cab and boom, can send the ball crashing into a target with bull's-eye accuracy. Many a major Eastern wrecking project has had an Allit touch...
Disagreement over the relative merits of the Harlow November "system" and Yale material may be waxing warm by the Thursday before the sixty-fourth meeting between the Blue and Red, but no Entry bull session will outglow the airwaves of WHRV that evening...