Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happy Chandler just couldn't muster the votes. He needed twelve to re-elect him to his $65,000 job as baseball commissioner; the best he could get from the club owners in Miami Beach this week was nine-the same as last time around (TIME, Dec. 25). The other seven major-league clubs, led by the Cardinals' Fred Saigh, seemed to have won the fight for a new commissioner. The poser was: Who? The owners have until 1952 to settle the problem. They handed the screening job to a committee, told the committee to "take...
...London Sunday Times column, "I came to a great resolve. I have resigned from the intelligentsia ... I have had enough of it. I have decided to line up with the damfool section of the population, the 95%, meaning you ... As a ci-devant intellectual I was one of the elect. I knew what it was all about, whereas the supreme characteristic of you, my new associates, is that you don't know what it is all about . Where do you fit in? How do you fit in? What is there to fit into? You don't know...
Johnny Lee, sophomore captain-elect of the varsity wrestling team, successfully defended his New England A.A.U. 121-pound championship at Quincy Saturday night and decided to compete in the national collegiate tournament this weekened at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania...
...spare time, is Accardo's specialist on policy. Manno also travels for the syndicate. The committee confronted him with a wire recording of a conversation he had been trapped into by Dallas' Sheriff Steve Guthrie in 1946. Manno had gone to Texas to see Guthrie, then sheriff-elect, about a "program of horse-booking, slot machines, dice, numbers, everything...
Party Dilemmas. The Radical Socialists want to return to the two-ballot voting used in the Third Republic. Under this system, if no candidate got an absolute majority on the first ballot, a runoff election was held a week later, in which any combination of parties could elect a single candidate. A flexible center party, the Radicals hope to gain a lot by being able to make deals to their right & left...