Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among the first to predict that TIME'S Man of the Year for 1952 will be President-Elect Adlai Stevenson...
...fuming & fretting about the Saar, which was to have become an internationalized zone as headquarters for the Schuman Plan. But the Germans want the Saar for their own; the French won't hear of it. ¶ In the Assembly last week, the Germans and Italians wanted to elect a German president. The French backed Paul-Henri Spaak. After a sharp skirmish, the job went to Belgium's Spaak, who last December quit in disgust as president of the Council of Europe's Assembly because, he said, it could only agree on "what could not be done...
...Cliffe's council also recommended that dormitory presidents use the Have transfer system, rather than the preferential voting system to elect dorm officers...
...third term will fall into the old, familiar, President-dictator-exile pattern. Apparently President Velasco himself has thought about it. "If by any chance I should be deposed again before I finish my third term," he said not long ago, "I am sure the people of Ecuador will elect me a fourth time...
...their first meeting in Lancaster, Pa., Lawrence led the singing and George gave his maiden sermon, a vigorous appeal to elect for Christ and escape damnation, a topic which Mennonites have always stressed. The first night more than 2,000 jammed their way into the tent. Dozens were converted. Before the week was out, the Brunks had to order a new tent...