Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business is bad, but Mr. Beluncle has castles in the sky. He is sternly self-assured with his wife, his three sons and the widow who puts up the money for the furniture business. Part of his assurance comes from belonging to the Parkinson group, a circle of self-elect who believe in Love, Smiling, and the Unreality of Death. "When I go to my factory and make furniture, to mortal sense I seem to be making wardrobes, armchairs and so on, but really I am spreading love," says Mr. Beluncle. "And the more I spread love, the more orders...
...strength" in Boston by stating merely that the GOP has a minimum of 75,000 votes. He neglects to mention that the Democrats have a minimum strength of at least twice that number, and that according to both the registration rolls and the results of recent state and national elections, Party labels do not appear on the ballot. The leading candidates for municipal office are invariably Democratic. Republicans could not elect one of their men as mayor with the help of Aladdin's Lamp, but they can and do exert considerable influence as to what Democrats are elected--frequently having...
Thus last week London's Tory Daily Express greeted the long-awaited, long-deferred decision of Prime Minister Clement Attlee to call autumn elections. Britain will elect a new Parliament...
...Club Militar, an old social and fraternal organization open to all Brazilian officers. Organizing Cell No. 2 of their Democratic Front of National Liberation inside the club, they gained influence by lobbying in Congress for more pay and privileges for officers. In the club's 1950 elections, they helped elect as club president General Newton Estillac Leal, the candidate of Getulio Vargas, then launching his political comeback; at the same time, they worked their own men into key jobs on the club directorate...
Johnny Lee, captain-elect of this year's wrestling team, will be unable to wrestle, at least for the first term, because of a recent operation on an old knee injury suffered last season...