Word: ex-governor
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nomination, faces strong opposition from Michigan's union leaders, who regard his law as antiunion. His probable Democratic opponent: ex-Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams or Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh...
...Kubitschek, currently in self-exile in Manhattan, is a man without honor in Brazil. President Humberto Castello Branco's revolutionary government has suspended the ex-President's political rights for ten years on charges of corruption in office. Nevertheless, Castello Branco has tripled the Belém-Brasilia budget to $9,000,000 yearly for maintenance and road improvement. Even so bitter a Kubitschek critic as Carlos Lacerda, the acid-tongued ex-governor of Guanabara (Rio), gives the ex-President his due. "I'm an old enemy of Juscelino's," Lacerda told some road engineers recently...
...supreme court of the armed forces is the U.S. Court of Military Appeals in Washington. "COMA," as military lawyers call it, has three civilian judges-Chief Judge Robert E. Quinn, 71, a former state trial judge and ex-Governor of Rhode Island; Paul J. Kilday, 65, a Texan who served 22 years in Congress and helped to write the military justice code as a member of the House Armed Services Committee; and Homer Ferguson, 72, a veteran Detroit trial judge who later served two terms as Republican U.S. Senator from Michigan...
...military clique that uses anti-Communism as an excuse to run roughshod over the country's laws. Some local military commanders are still arresting suspected subversives and holding them without bringing specific charges. Last week an estimated 1,500 "suspects" remained locked away, including Miguel Arraes, ex-governor of Pernambuco, who has yet to be formally indicted...
...term, when Franklin Roosevelt's Pennsylvania coattails were even longer than Lyndon Johnson's 20 years later. From 1954 to 1958, he was the pivotal vote for the liberals on the House Rules Committee, a distinction which did not endear him to ex-minority leader Charles Halleck. In 1958, he defeated ex-governor George M. Leader in the Senate race, and in 1964 was re-elected over Miss Genevieve Blatt by 70,000 votes, while President Johnson was carrying the state by almost a million and a half votes...