Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The choice of a chancellor will be up to Adenauer's ruling Christian Democratic party if Adenauer is elected president, and there was little doubt of Adenauer's election. Adenauer will still be at the helm when crucial East-West meetings take place this spring and summer.
The report also called for the establishment of a permanent committee consisting of House Election Chairmen and Council representatives to supervise vote tallying. Rigid controls provided by this group would, the Council felt, "remove as far as possible any element of arbitrary choice or personal preference."
The last time Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 64, saw the U.S., he was an obscure brigadier general, attached to the Brazilian embassy in Washington. This week, ten years later, he returns as the tough, seasoned boss of the Brazilian armed forces, and democracy's strong right arm in...
Slouching angularly at his front-row desk in the House of Commons, Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker deftly handled some fast-breaking problems of state. With a quick parliamentary shuffle he bottled up a CCF (socialist) demand for Canadian recognition of Red China, thus earning Washington's warm approval...
After alarming some Americans with election-campaign Yankee-baiting, Diefenbaker has emerged in office as a firm and responsible friend of the U.S. His ministers take pains to assure U.S. investors that their dollars are welcome and safe in Canada. Diefenbaker's cooperation in defense has strengthened the effectiveness...