Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price of rice and beans. As factory streets filled with pickets, rumors spread that a big quebra-quebra (literally, "break-break"), all-night looting outbreak, was in the offing. With the danger that the unrest might boil up into a full-scale general strike, President Vargas summoned Mayor-elect Jânio to an urgent conference. As a first result of this session, Jânio, a lone-hander who had won without making commitments, took office at once instead of waiting as scheduled until April...
...etiquette of the societies ludicrous (in theory, a member hearing his society's name mentioned among outsiders was supposed to leave the room). Finally last week, Yale's Senior societies quietly came to a decision. After 75 years. Tap Day was abolished. Just how the societies will elect members from now on, no one yet knew. Said the Yale Daily News: "Tap Day was not a great evil . . . but as a tangible symbol it had drawn most of the anti-Society criticism . . . What remains is for the Societies to justify their existence...
...Lubells decided to resign from the staff on Tuesday. This decision was accepted without much argument the next day, at a staff meeting called specifically to elect a new President and Associate Editor...
Alan B. Ives, Wilhelmina L. Florencourt, William E. Glynn, and Austin Boble '50 were elected to the class Executive Council. The Executive Council will meet this evening to elect three more members to its ranks...
...meeting time comes to New England. Gone are the uncomplicated days when every municipal decision, big or little, was threshed out at weekly meetings; but most towns of less than 5,000 population (and some larger towns, too) still hold yearly or twice-yearly meetings at which the citizens elect local officials, vote appropriations and taxes, and turn a watchful eye-and often a sharp tongue-on the town administration's performance. Some meetings held this month...