Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happens every four years. Wars, depressions, heart attacks--none of these can prevent presidential elections from taking place. Present intense speculation about Eisenhower's future plans, the number of accusations and counter-accusations, the New Hampshire primary less than three weeks away--all these are reminders that this November about 60 million voters will go to the polls to elect a President of the United States...
...Howard, President of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership in Mississippi, and President-elect of the Negro Medical Association, made his attack before some 450 people at a meeting in New Lecture Hall sponsored by the Society for Minority Rights...
...attack on Congress Party corruption, Bhave outlined his latest solution for India's troubles: "The existing form of government must be liquidated at an early date and replaced by gram raj [village government]." The social structure would be recast by having everyone over 21 years elect "Bhoodan committees" to redistribute all the land, according to need based on the size of families. Though there is precedent for such ideas in the teachings of Gandhi, Bhave had found other sympathizers for his leveler's commonwealth. Said he: "The Communists have assured me of their cooperation...
...counted than the block-Kubitschek camp, arguing that he would not have won without Communist endorsement, got to work. In the name of antiCommunism, morality and higher democracy, a faction-made up largely of navy and air force officers, intellectuals and conservative politicos-set out to prevent the President-elect's inauguration one way or another-if necessary, by means of a golpe (military coup...
...telephones busy. Blade paces the "deep veldt" of his office carpet during "Thinktime" and his mind crackles with "hot intuitive ideas busting loose like popcorn over a fast fire." As chairman of the Voters' Service Committee of the Republican Party, Blade needs a hot intuitive idea that will elect an amiable Midwestern boob named Henry Clay Adams...