Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, beset on all sides, tough old Syngman Rhee proposed a deal. He said he would let the Assembly elect the next President by June 23 (as provided in the constitution) if the Assembly agreed to permit the popular election of future Presidents. On the surface, this offer looked good, but the suspicious Assembly-with eleven of its members still under Rhee's arrest-wanted to take a hard look at the fine print...
...district commissioner proposed that the Bamangwato elect another chief. The tribal elders, wearing goatskins, zoot suits and flashy ties, told him to be quiet. They shook their fists and spat. Bamangwato virgins stormed the dais where Batho sat, and screamed: "We want our chief Seretse . . . May you die where you stand." Batho appealed for order and was shouted down: "Seretse should lead us . . . We cannot nominate anyone else to take his place. You have tried to rule us with a rod of iron. You treat us like ants. We won't have...
Wishing to show that it had acquired the necessary Harvard indifference, only 60 percent of the class bothered to vote for the Class Officers. However they managed to elect Leo F. Daley, president; Clement C. Coady, vice-president; John R. Burke, secretary-treasurer; and Isadore Zarakov, Student Council Representative. The '26 class officers thought-fully gave their successors a book of instructions...
...community center across the street, Ikemen raised bitter placards reading "Rob With Bob" and "Graft with Taft." Then they opened their own convention with a prayer by the Rev. N. O. Carrington: "We like Ike. God likes Ike. We will nominate and elect him." Shouting Ike instead of aye, the Ikemen instructed their own delegation to the National Convention to cast 33 votes for Ike and five for Taft (from the districts that he really won). Before they adjourned, Harris County Chairman Ingraham shamefacedly walked in to say "I regret the type of campaign that has been waged...
Leonard Carmichael, retiring president of Tufts, secretary-elect of the Smithsonian Institution D.Sc...