Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colombian Senate convicted Rojas of "overstepping his authority" and of "using the office of President to increase, in an unlawful form, his assets and those of others." It was the first time a Colombian ex-President faced the music since 1867, when General Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera was convicted of setting up a monopoly on the sale of salt...
...clamped on his hat and left. Two days later, the verdict was read to the empty yellow chair reserved for the defendant. Next week the sentence will be handed down. Maximum penalty from the Senate: loss of political rights, e.g., the right to vote, and his pensions as former general and President. Upon review, Colombia's Supreme Court can also add a prison sentence of up to twelve years...
...sing on the radio. This year, with the Metropolitan auditions radio program off the air, they were brought to New York by the Met's National Council to compete on the great stage before judges and an audience. Each of the 15 contestants had a preliminary hearing before General Manager Rudolf Bing and his panel to decide what they should sing in the finals, then rehearsed under Conductor Kurt Adler. With that preparation, they walked onto the Meistersinger set (already in place for an evening performance) to compete for the big prize: a contract with...
President Eisenhower echoed Stanton's "ridiculous," instructed U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers to look for solutions. The FCC, in full accord with the presidential action, suggested that any real remedy will have to come from Congress, which has the power to amend or strike out Section 315. But until the Attorney General or Congress finds an answer, Chicago still has Lar Daly on its wave length, and radio-TV newsmen elsewhere are wary. Wiped out in the primary as usual, Daly bought an ad in the Chicago Tribune to announce himself as a write-in candidate for mayor...
Died. John ("General") Sailing, 112, one of the two surviving veterans of the Civil War, sometime railroader, farmer, logger, horse trader and moonshiner, who served three years as a Confederate private, mainly digging saltpeter for gunpowder in the hills near his lifelong home in Slant, Va.; of pneumonia; at a clinic in Kingsport, Tenn. Mountaineer Sailing, a rocking-chair pacifist ("Wars are all part of some scheme"), outlived the last Union soldier-Albert Woolson, who died in Duluth, Aug. 2, 1956-but not the Confederacy's Walter W. ("Old Reb") Williams, who lives in Houston and is the Civil...