Word: congress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coffin, 39, handily won re-election to Congress as predicted. ¶ In the downstate First District, James C. ("Big Jim") Oliver, 63, a onetime G.O.P. isolationist, Coughlinite and Townsendite turned Democrat, defeated eight-term Republican Robert Hale by 3,000 votes to give Democrats two of Maine's three congressional seats. (Hale had squeaked by with only in votes...
...Communist President Frank Foulkes and Communist General Secretary Frank Haxell. And the opening session of the goth annual meeting of the T.U.C. last week found the Red electricians in a peculiarly vulnerable position: although 38-year-old E.T.U. Member Leslie Cannon had been elected a delegate to the congress by the union's membership, Frank Foulkes and "Squeaky" Haxell had refused to accredit him because he had quit the Communist Party in disgust over Russian repression of the Hungarian revolution. But when fiercely anti-Communist Labor M.P. Walter Padley jumped to the rostrum to demand a debate on this...
...customers would steal the counters bare (as they did in a small-scale experiment with a self-service store in Milan in 1949). But after Romans stampeded the big U.S. supermarket set up under the direction of Grand Union's President Lansing P. Shield at an international food congress in Rome in 1956, enterprising Italians and American businessmen decided the time had come to improve on Trajan...
With four candidates splitting the vote as they did last week, there was no chance that Alessandri could poll more than 50% of the vote, as required by the constitution. Congress will have to choose between him and Runner-Up Allende within 50 days. But the voters clearly chose Businessman Alessandri, and Congress traditionally backs the people's choice...
...Congress decided the issue Schenley's way. Last week Schenley President Lewis S. Rosenstiel said that his fight was not for Schenley alone, pointed out that virtually every distilling stock has risen since Congress acted, many to new highs. (Schenley's rose the most, from 18½ earlier this year to 31½.) Distress selling of whisky to collect the tax is now over, said Rosenstiel, and there is no reason for "senseless" price wars...