Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After six months of chaos spent trying to elect a President, Haiti had found a leader with obvious popular support. The process of selection was rude: when the campaigning reached the shooting stage, other candidates backed out and pushed Fignole into office. He took hold vigorously, appointed a strong Cabinet, named a new army chief, produced pay for troops and other government employees who had gone wageless for a month. Banks, factories, docks, cable offices, radio stations reopened; peasant women hurried to the capital toting baskets of fruit and vegetables...
...Captain-elect Pete Reider garnered the other Crimson third, as he came in behind Connecticut's Lew Steiglitz and Princeton's Rod Zwirner in the two-mile. Despite his two-week exam period lay-off, Reider's time of 9:17.8 also broke a college record, but will not be considered...
...ablare with importuning speeches and ablaze with beseeching banners. One candidate had already unmasked a rival as an "American agent," and the rival was desperately taking ads in the papers to protest his 100% Egyptianism. Another was laying siege to coffeehouse customers with a tape-recorded tune: "With freedom elect him. Elect Moussa Sabri." To make sure the fun was harmless, Nasser instituted a new legal provision last week: any speaker who criticizes any public official must furnish the authorities with documentary proof of his charges within five days of making them...
...Charles C. Lund '16, clinical professor of Surgery, has been named president-elect of the Harvard Medical Alumni Association. Lund is Surgeon-in-Chief of the Fifth Surgical Service at Boston City Hospital...
...satisfied with anything less than five cents an hour above MIT rates," he asserts, hastily adding that "the members frame the demands and elect negotiators, but we know in general what we'll be looking...