Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firm constitutional provision, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines may not succeed himself as President of Mexico. By equally firm tradition, he can pick the candidate who will probably win the election. Some time in the next two months, President Ruiz Cortines will make the choice after a round of crucial but secret talks with former Presidents, Cabinet members, governors and generals-plus a long and lonely conversation with himself. The winner's name will gradually leak out, and he will be nominated when the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) meets late this year. On the first Sunday of July...
...superb encomium to Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas. He did not need a silver spoon to find success; he did it with a $5 Bible and hard, conscientious work. He is doing an excellent job in Washington and we should elect him President...
Each was awarded a Doctor of Laws as were Robert F. Goheen, Princeton president-elect, Arthur L. Goodhart, Master of University College, Oxford, and Devereux C. Josephs '15, Chairman of the President's Committee on Education Beyond the High School...
...these 12 left for Austin, Texas, yesterday to compete in the annual N.C.A.A. championships. Senior Jim Cairns and junior French Anderson have entered the 880, while captain-elect Pete Reider, holder of the University mile record of 4:11.0, and sophomore Dyke Benjamin will run the two-mile. Joel Landau, the sophomore standout, who won both hurdles events in the recent Heptagonals and placed third in the IC4A lows will run his specialty, while another sophomore, Sandy Dodge, will enter the dashes...
...Faced with an explosive plan to merge the Church of Scotland with the Church of England, appoint elders for the Anglicans, elect bishops for the Scots (TIME, June 3), the Church of Scotland's General Assembly decided not to decide, post-poned action for a year. Rumbled the Scottish edition of the Daily Express: "Instead of the sudden death it deserved, this iniquitous proposal is given another twelve months of dangerous life...