Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allay the fears of France (pop. 42 million) that a reunited Germany (pop. 65 million) might one day dominate the European Assembly elections, a ceiling was fixed above which no nation's delegation might rise. Luxembourg (pop. 300,000) was pacified by a clause guaranteeing representation for states whose populations are too small to elect even one member to the supranational chamber...
...Democratic side, dozens of names popped up, but one stood out: Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, the only Democrat holding a major elective office in California. A pleasant political neutralist of the Warren stripe, Brown had announced that he would not run against the governor, but he was ready to go now that his old friend had stepped out. Said he: "I think the Democrats now will elect a governor next year...
...petitions to change Democratic registrations to Republican. In Georgia, State Chairman Elbert Tuttle has established the state's first full-time G.O.P. headquarters, and new party units are springing up all over the state. In Virginia, the G.O.P. thinks it has the chance of the century to elect a governor. "For the first time since the Civil War," wired a TIME correspondent last week, "it is respectable to be a Republican in the South...
...nation where democracy has yet to sink its roots deep. 33 million Germans are eligible to vote, and probably 80% of them will. They will elect 484 deputies to the Bundestag, but to most of them the issue is simpler than that. The issue is Ja or Nein for the man whom Winston Churchill has called the greatest German statesman since Bismarck: Konrad Adenauer. Adenauer himself believes that the "fate of Europe, the fate of Germany, the fate of our Christian civilization depends on the outcome of September 6." There is much in what he says...
...Senate majority leader in a Republican Administration, the public began to see a new Taft. The nation which had overturned the Fair Deal to elect Dwight Eisenhower was ready to listen, at least with half an ear. There sprang up the hope that Taft and Eisenhower between them would evolve a foreign policy and a policy of national defense, a domestic policy and, indeed, a reconstructed and truly American idealism to which the nation could rally. This hope began to turn Taft into a popular figure. Whatever suffering they brought to him as a man, Taft's last...