Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Guatemala and Honduras last week, voters went to the polls to elect their next . Presidents, and Brazil neared the end of the slow, complex tally (TIME, Oct. 18) of its off-year congressional vote. In all three nations, the overall pattern of results was reassuring for Western Hemisphere stability: with minor local exceptions, the voting was peaceful and orderly, and moderates and anti-Communists did better with the voters than extremists of either the left or right wing. The big winners: ¶ Brazil's conservative President Joao Cafe Filho, though not on any ballot, significantly bested the politically potent...
...There seem to be two main themes of the Republican campaign for Congress this year," said Stevenson. "One is to elect a Republican Congress to do what they couldn't do-:with a Republican Congress. And the other is, curiously enough, a 1952 model-:crime, corruption, controls and Korea...
...their fifth birthday the Chinese Communists were busily consolidating and expanding. To start the week, the first People's Congress voted unanimously to re-elect Mao Chairman of the People's Republic and ratified Red China's first constitution, thus ending the sham of coalition government and concentrating still more power in the hands of Mao and his coterie...
...program was announced too late to interest more than a few members of the Class of 1954, but Van Vleck expects 40 or 50 engineers-elect to take advantages of the five-year plan next year...
...Either, as you say, we continue a general election in which the well-known name wins regardless of his individual contact with the class as a whole, or else we can break the class down so that members can elect someone who is perhaps not so well known generally from newspaper headlines, yet is thought well of in his own group," Bicks stated...