Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TiME, Nov. 21). Last week War Minister Teixeira Lott was again the man in charge, and again his avowed purpose in calling out the troops was to defend the constitution against Brazil's so-called golpistas: the military-civilian faction that favors a golpe (coup) to keep President-elect Ju-scelino Kubitschek and leftist Vice President-elect Joao ("Jango") Goulart from taking office next January. Teixeira Lott reportedly has no burning admiration for Kubitschek, but he considers himself duty bound to see to it that the presidential candidate who won the most votes in October's election...
Abba Eban who last week welcomed his Foreign Minister, Moshe Sharett, in the U.S. on a bond-raising tour, was one of the very few diplomats who predicted that Egypt's rising young Colonel Nasser would elect to join neither West nor East but Nehru's neutralists. For all his urbanity, Abba Eban sometimes argues his case with a touch of bitterness and bite. "Israel," he once said, "stands out as an island of freedom in the wilderness of despotism...
...ballad-singing, back-thumping campaign (TIME, Aug. 8) were key factors in the size of his victory. But there was a national issue involved: falling prices on the farm. Chandler hit hard at U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson's farm program, crying: "Why, if you elect this fellow [Denney] this fall next year he'll be helping Benson and those fellows up there." In rural Kentucky, there was a marked shift to the Democratic side from the 1954 congressional election, e.g., in west Kentucky's Hopkins County (tobacco), the Democrats gained 1,174 votes...
...Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott, 61, leader of last week's revolt. In recent months War Minister Lott had emerged as the army's sturdiest opponent of the faction called golpistas-the military and civilian leaders who favor a golpe (coup) to keep middle-roading President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek (TIME, Oct. 17 et ante) from taking office next January...
...Green and Paul Brodtkorp, both Yale '50, Peter G. Lenahan, Dartmouth '54, Lieutenant Dudley Hall (mercifully in civilian clothes), Boston U. '52 and James B. Adler '53, were doing their native best, however, and everyone realized it. So they were accepted, permitted to listen and learn with the unkempt elect...