Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a brief flurry of debate, the Assembly approved, 337 to 173, with only the Communists and the Poujadistes in opposition. With victory secured, Gaillard and Bourges climbed into a new Citroen and joined Mme. Gaillard at the Brasserie Lipp, a Left Bank restaurant which is the traditional spot for...
Last week the Portuguese, technically, had a chance to protest against Salazar. Traditionally, the opposition fades away before Election Day. But in 1953, for the first time in a reign which began in 1928, 28 candidates ran against his National Union; all lost. This year, muzzled and muffled, all the...
Slender, wavy-haired and handsome, Lopez Mateos will have especial appear in next July's election, when women vote for a President for the first time. He lives with his wife and 15-year-old daughter in a still unfinished modern house with a $13,600 mortgage on it...
Marcos Perez Jimenez of Venezuela long refused to believe the overwhelming evidence that he is among the world's least popular Presidents. He even held a dangerously free election in 1952 and .had to stage a secret, red-faced recount when returns ran ten to one against him. But...
Slated for unopposed election this week as Jewish co-chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews: Investment Banker Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. His holdover colleagues: Catholic James F. Twohy, West Coast finance executive, and Protestant Benjamin F. Fairless, onetime head of U.S. Steel...