Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next Sunday the weary French voters -most of them, anyway-will go to the polls (for the fourth time in seven months) to elect 619 deputies to the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. The prospect: a continuation of the present coalition government, in which the MRP (Catholic progressives) now leads the Communists by a slight margin, with the Socialists third. The plain people were not much agitated; the winter winds were beginning to blow in earnest around their scantily heated houses. They were much more interested in coal than in coalition...
President-elect Gonzalez Videla, who is no Communist, but who had Communist support and will probably include red-banner men in his Cabinet, got the good news at home while 60,000 backers cheered beneath his windows. He took the bows, then dined with his family and went to a movie. To Chileans, racked by hunger and inflation, Gonzalez Videla said: "Have confidence, you will not be betrayed...
...most democratic election in Venezuela's history. In the remote cattle towns of the Andes, in the boisterous oil camps of the coast, more than a million citizens queued up to choose the 160 members of a Constituent Assembly that would write a new constitution (Venezuela's 19th) and elect a new Provisional President...
When Pennsylvania's Governor Ed Martin marched into Philadelphia last week, the event epitomized political history in the making. The key state of Pennsylvania was getting ready to elect Ed Martin to the U.S. Senate. Ed Martin is an unmistakable Republican. The city on which he marched, in the last days of his campaign, is the shrine of traditional Republicanism. And Republicanism, after 14 years of ineffective opposition, was unmistakably resurgent all around...
...form the nation's strong, bipartisan foreign policy. Taft's cold, moral judgment and insistence on getting at the facts had more than once saved the Senate from hysterical legislation. Dewey's businesslike administration of New York has won him a popularity which would apparently re-elect him by a landslide. What about 67-year-old Ed Martin of Pennsylvania...