Word: di
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OHIO. The 58-vote delegation decided against the unit rule, although almost all votes are controlled on the first ballot by Governor Frank Lausche, who will be nominated for President by Gubernatorial Hopeful Mike Di Salle. In a preconvention hedge, Lausche's aides prepared to welcome Harriman campaigners into Ohio this week, listen respectfully to talk about a Harriman-Lausche ticket...
...feel. After begging his son, at the insistence of the Communists, to come home, one father managed to get word to him through a relative in Hong Kong: "Ignore that letter. Don't come back." In a letter to her daughter, a mother kept referring to a "Brother Di," who, she said, had been asking a number of questions about the daughter. On reading that, the daughter knew exactly what was up: Brother Di was the mother's pre-arranged code name for "the Communists...
Died. Michael Arlen (real name: Di-kran Kouyoumdjian), 60, glossy British novelist (The Green Hat) and short-story writer (These Charming People), wealthy fashion-plate-about-Mayfair in the '20s; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...
...Rome has been plagued by tram strikes, power and water shortages. He finally withdrew as a candidate for reelection, in the face of Communist charges of corruption centering on the projected Hotel Hilton, which is yet to be erected on Rome's outskirts. The Communist candidate is Giuseppe di Vittorio, a tough Red union leader who is rated second only to Togliatti as an orator and vote getter. If Di Vittorio wins, the Christian Democrats in the city council will try to keep him from forming a government, thus allowing the national government to appoint a prefect to govern...
...them. He is confident that there soon will be room; last week he rejoiced at the news that Naples' church and civil authorities had granted permission for him to move his shelter out of the slums and up to a site he has picked out on Capo di Monte, which overlooks the city...