Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Task Ahead. Intellectuals aside, the vote for Eisenhower suggests that, despite the relative bitterness of campaign oratory, the U.S. is more genuinely united behind the President-elect than it has been for many years. Few Presidents in U.S. history have had so clear a mandate from so many divergent groups. It is, in fact, a mandate for a fresh start in the U.S.'s dealings with the world and with itself-a mandate for leadership. At no time in U.S. history has the need for leadership been so great or the leader's task so complex and fateful...
This surprising accord was hammered out in eight days of talks in Cairo with white-bearded, wealthy Sir Abdel Rahman El Mahdi of Sudan.* They agreed that the Sudanese should elect a legislative assembly by year's end, and thereafter practice full home rule under the supervision of the British governor general. Then, within three years, by Dec. 31, 1955 at the latest, the 8,000,000 Sudanese are to vote again on whether they want to remain independent or join Egypt...
WASHINGTON, NOV. 7--The President and President-elect began setting up today a liaison system for shifting from the old administration to the new the vast problems of foreign affairs, defense and finance...
Poland went to the polls last week to elect its first Sejm (Parliament) under the new constitution of the Polish People's [Communist] Republic. There was no fuss, no muss, and no opposition. Voters were handed pink cards containing the names of but one ticket, led by Communist President Boleslaw Bierut. Then they were told to fold and drop the card into an urn. An area was screened off where voters, if they wished, could go to cross off any names on the card. Few did, in the face of a warning: "Those who deliberately impair the unity...
...less than seven years." Or there was an even easier way. "Sixty-two shares of common stock [each] would give them a voting majority in the corporation's affairs . . . An investment of only $5 a week would turn the trick in less than ten years. Then they could elect their own board of directors, fire the present management, put Phil Murray in my job, and run the business to suit themselves . . . Clearly, Marx didn't know all the Engels...