Word: congressmen
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...last three presidential elections, but locally has been able to elect officials in only 17 of 67 counties. The party's strength is restricted to the sun cities for retired old folk and central Florida's industrial belt, and though the state has two G.O.P. Congressmen, six of its ten Democratic Congressmen are running without any opposition...
...VIRGINIA. Senator Harry Byrd behaves so much like a Republican that Virginia's G.O.P. sometimes wonders just where it can turn. Nevertheless, the G.O.P. has been winning seats never before held by Republicans-and two G.O.P. Congressmen elected in 1952 are now well entrenched. Though the Republicans doubled their strength in the Virginia general assembly last year, they are still outnumbered 126 to 14, which indicates the size of the job they face. But islands of strength are being formed in suburban areas, where young families are settling to man new industries, and a lot of doorbell ringing...
Barely two days after Goulart fled to exile in Uruguay, an army colonel strode into the Congress in Brasilia with a message from the war ministry in Rio. His superiors, he informed congressional leaders, demanded a thoroughgoing purge, suspending the political rights and immunities of Congressmen suspected of being Communists, leftists or subversives. When Congress balked, the three military chiefs of staff simply decreed it. In an "Institutional Act," they set the hard ground rules under which the country will be administered until free elections are held in 1965 and a popularly elected President is inaugurated. Effective until...
...Empowers the government to cancel anyone's political rights for ten years, dismiss Congressmen, state deputies, city councilmen; fire any federal, state or municipal employee found guilty of acts against democracy, national security, and "the probity of public administration." In other words, out with the Communists and crooks...
...General Labor Command began buying newspaper ads cheering the "victory of the glorious forces." One of the most radical divisions of Goulart's own Labor Party vowed to throw out "all extremist elements." By a 75 to 0 vote, the Minas Gerais state legislature kicked out three extremist congressmen; in Natal, the city council voted 25 to 0 to impeach their leftist mayor despite army suggestions that three or four dissenting votes would make it look better...