Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope stood on a balcony beneath the brilliant spring sun. Below him lay the immense Piazza di San Pietro and, in its encircling colonnades, a multitude of more than 350,000 people, who overflowed into the adjoining streets and lined the nearby roofs. Overhead swooped two planes, scattering Christian Democrat leaflets urging the listeners to vote; the tolling of St. Peter's eight-foot bell and the music of the Vatican's band stirred the throng, whose banners read "Christ or Death." With raised hands, the Pope cried: "This year of anxiety and peril is the harbinger...
Jubilant Communists this week were busily plastering Rome's walls with the picture of a Roman Catholic priest. The caption: "One vote the Christian Democrats won't get. Monsignor Cippico, Vatican official, can't vote because he's in jail. He would have voted Christian Democrat -if he hadn't been caught...
...plenary session, opening the event on Saturday afternoon, explosion almost came in crossfire between Daniel J. Riesner, Secretary of the New York County Republican Committee; Nat Bass campaign manager in the gubernatorial bid of Democrat James M. Mead; and Wallace-for-President organizational consultant Bernard Conal...
...political leaders the most interesting-because they hold the greatest potential influence-are Social Democrats Karl-August Fagerholm, speaker of Parliament, and Onni Peltonen, locomotive engineer by trade, who is chief of the Social Democrat parliamentary bloc and chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Peltonen has led the fight for a firm policy, while the softening influence is attributed to Fagerholm, who was in Stockholm the first of the week and returned with a roaring case of jitters...
...promised Townes free rein. But cautious Publisher Frank W. Power was against crusades; they might hurt business. Townes asked the Scripps Brothers to back him up. When they hedged, he quit. Last week, Townes left town. He will become general manager of the Santa Rosa (Calif.) morning Press-Democrat (circ. 10,396), the afternoon Republican (circ. 2,053) and their radio station...