Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting of the National Council, Fanfani called De Gasperi "our teacher and guide," Scelba "my dear friend," and proposed that the council elect to membership his two chief opponents, Giuseppe Pella of the Demo-Christian right wing, and Giovanni Gronchi of the left, who had been passed over at Naples. In his short acceptance speech, Fanfani used the word friend 50 times. His friendliness proved contagious: the changeover was completely harmonious...
...vote surveys, Republicans were expected to vote two or three to one in favor of the Administration. They astounded everyone by standing behind Ike's farm program eight to one. Said a G.O.P. leader: "The same thing that made us support his program today is going to re-elect Republicans in November:, the voters' feeling that Eisenhower's program deserves a fair chance and real support...
Three Senators. All this means that Nebraskans, for the first time in history, will elect three U.S. Senators in November. One will finish the remaining four years of Butler's term. One will finish the last two months of the expiring term left vacant by Griswold's death this spring (now filled by Interim Appointee Eva Bowring). The third will begin a new six-year term as successor to Senator Bowring's successor, whoever that...
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was as cross and jumpy as a baited bear and as busy as a bee at twilight. Reason: Der Alte (the Old One), as West Germans call their indomitable leader, was afraid his C.D.U. (Christian Democrats) might lose a crucial provincial election this week in North Rhine-Westphalia. This is the largest and most important of West Germany's nine states (it contains the Ruhr). Its nearly 10 million eligible voters would only elect 200 new deputies to the state legislature at Diisseldorf, but they were also rendering judgment on how much Konrad Adenauer...
First business was to elect Young their new chairman - at $1 a year. Next they named Alfred E. Perlman, 51, executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, as the Central's new president (TIME, June 7) and chief executive officer.-Take a Chance. Young and Perlman had met for the first time only 20 days before. But Perlman had been carefully scouted much earlier by Thomas J. Deegan, vice president of Alleghany and, as Young's righthand man, director of the campaign for Central proxies. As second in command (under Judge Wilson McCarthy) of the middle...