Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month before the election, Vargas suddenly installed his unpopular brother, Benjamin Vargas, as police chief. Dutra and Góes Monteiro decided that Vargas was preparing to cancel the elections. They staged a coup of their own which abruptly ended Vargas' 15-year rule. Chief Justice José Linhares became acting President until the election, which Dutra won by just over a million votes...
...Vichy French in 1941. Though Zaim was a veteran of many losing causes, he rose steadily, first to chief of Syria's police, and finally to army chief of staff. First rumors were that Zaim was an ardent nationalist, who would break off truce negotiations with Israel, cancel the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Co.'s rights to build a pipeline through Syria (TIME, Sept. 15, 1947), and throw in his lot with Trans-jordan's King Abdullah, whose avowed hope it is to build a "Greater Syria." Zaim denied any such wild intentions. His coup, he said...
...Washington, where he is serving as temporary chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General of the Army Dwight Eisenhower came down with a "severe case of acute gastro-enteritis," had to cancel all dates. After a week in bed, he was able to get out of town for "a complete rest" in Key West...
...bill would empower the State Commissioner of Education to investigate all colleges and schools to discover whether any members of their faculties were subversive. The State Board of Education would have the power to cancel the tax exemption of a school that did not dismiss a suspected faculty member. If a teacher were actually indicted by the district attorney and convicted by the courts for advocating violent overthrow of the government, the institution which employed him would lose its charter. New York State's Lusk Laws, passed in 1921, are the only precedent for this sort of legislation. Characterized...
...Were forced to cancel American appearances because of their Nazi pasts...