Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, when Pietro Nenni rose to speak at his party's biennial congress in Naples, Fanfani's dreams and the right-wingers' fears became academic. Weaving and bobbing around the microphone, Nenni shouted: "This government has almost been brought to the ground, which is already scattered with the bones of some of its most notable members . . . The policy of Fanfani is a phony socialism, with echelons of plans and reforms favorable only to monopolistic groups . . . Christian Democracy spells zero, and on zero you can build nothing. Our place is in the opposition." Furthermore, declared Nenni: "Prejudice...
...India Prime Minister Nehru's handsome 41-year-old daughter, Indira Gandhi, emerged as the leading candidate for the presidency of the Congress Party, a post held previously by both her father and her grandfather. A veteran politician and a sloe-eyed, animated woman, Indira is married to M.P. Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), has two young sons, is a determined left-winger and a close confidante of her father, as well as his official hostess. The only foreseeable bar to her election next month would be Nehru's disapproval, and, in accepting the nomination, Indira...
...York with his bride Mirtha. fathered a son named Fidel, settled down in Havana. At 2:43 on the morning of March 10, 1952. Fulgencio Batista-who had been Cuba's behind-the-scenes ruler for some ten years-seized Cuba by army coup. Castro, a candidate for Congress in the elections that Batista canceled, at once found his cause...
Turning guest for a change, chirrupy Washington Hostess Perle Mesta showed up towing a "friend from Newport," Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt, at a convivial "victory"' party honoring the new Congress, was soon chuckling brow-to-brow with the first Democratic table-hopper to arrive for the jollity. Rhode Island's venerable (91) Senator Theodore F. Green...
...Congress have long been at odds over how far and how fast the Government should go in pushing atomic power. The AEC felt that the U.S. should go slow, wait for private enterprise to take the initiative in building commercial plants. Many Congressmen felt that the Government had to take the lead, offer fat subsidies to get large-scale commercial atomic power going now. Last week a special committee of businessmen and engineers appointed by new AEC Chairman John A. McCone to advise him suggested a solution. The Government would pay a major part of the costs of constructing prototype...