Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newly elected Mr. Proxmire: even considering the Morses et al. in our Congress, rarely have we of the U.S. had the distinction of having one so obviously confused represent us. The appalling fact is that citizens can elect such an individual...
...lead was piling up on election night, Senator-elect Proxmire, already packing his bag, telephoned Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who was celebrating his 49th birthday, and made a statement that no Democrat or Republican in Washington would challenge. "Senator Johnson." he said, "I've got the biggest birthday present...
Died. Dr. Otto Ernst Heinrich Hermann Suhr, 63, Socialist lord mayor of West Berlin, doughty foe of Communism, Social Democratic delegate to the Bonn parliament and President-elect of the Bundesrat, the Parliament's Upper House, sometime (before Hitler and since 1948) professor of political science, onetime (1922-33) secretary of the German Trade Union Association; of leukemia; in Berlin...
...Europeans) as "an integral part of France," leaves defense, foreign policy, finance and justice to Paris, provides for splitting Algeria into three to six locally autonomous territories, some predominantly European, others predominantly Moslem. As a concession to the Arabs, the "double-college" voting procedure, under which Europeans elect as many representatives as the far more numerous Moslems, was eliminated...
...result: some 375,000 farmers signed up for benefits, instead of the 150,000 expected-an actuarial error of 150%. In addition, under a recent revision of the law, working women or wives of pensioners can start drawing reduced payments at 62. Some 790,000 are now expected to elect early payments, 50,000 more than anticipated. Meanwhile, to keep pace with inflation, the top amount a family with several dependents can receive has been raised from...