Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glasgow, it was the week to elect a new rector-a distinguished man from public life whose job it will be for the next three years to represent students on the university court (Glasgow's administrative head is known as the principal). Following a tradition dating from 1858, the students did the nominating, voting and, mixing national and university politics freely, most of the campaigning, too. Some of the candidates' names bore their political tags: Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Conservative; onetime Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Inverchapel (Clark Kerr), Independent; Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Independent; Actress Rosamond John...
...firm alliance with well-heeled Sewer Contractor Patrick Nash, the other half of the famed Kelly-Nash machine. Chosen mayor by the city council in 1933 to fill the unexpired term of Anton Cermak (killed in Miami in 1933 by an assassin's bullet intended for President-elect Franklin Roosevelt), Kelly became sole Democratic boss of Chicago on Pat Nash's death ("To be a real mayor . . . you've got to be a boss...
Last week in the Security Council, the U.S.S.R. cast a veto-its 46th-against another five-year term for Lie. The General Assembly cannot re-elect Lie unless the Council so recommends. But, the Assembly, which fixed his original term, can -and probably will-extend Lie's present term of office...
Last week Tito's Yugoslavia went egalitarian. A government decree, effective Nov. 1, closes all special food stores that serve party members and officials. Urban Yugoslav Communists will have to carry ration cards like other city dwellers. Special rest homes and resorts for the elect will be closed. Government agencies are forbidden to buy carpets, curtains, pictures and other items of interior decoration. After Nov. 1, nobody will be able to get free gasoline...
...that Getulio Vargas was the President-elect, what could Brazil expect next? With three-quarters of the votes counted, there was no longer any doubt that the little ex-dictator had shaken the nation with an electoral landslide. Even before the final count, President Dutra sent word to Vargas last week that the government would "protect the people's mandate," i.e., tolerate no coups between now and Vargas' inaugural next Jan. 31. After that, it would be up to Getulio Vargas...