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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most formidable Democratic opposition comes from ex-Governor (1949-53) Fuller Warren, still buoyed up by a feeling that "the Almighty endowed me with the talent to govern this state." If Collins clears the Warren hurdle, observers believe he can easily beat the G.O.P. candidate, William A. Washburne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Green Light for LeRoy | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Florida former (1949-53) Governor Fuller Warren, 50, decided to run again despite his persistent denials of renewed political ambition. Said he: "I feel that the Almighty endowed me with the talent to govern this state." His likely chief opponent: able Governor LeRoy Collins (TIME, Dec. 19), who is filling the unexpired term of the late Governor Dan McCarty and is waiting only for a state Supreme Court decision to endow him with authority to run again under Florida's law forbidding a governor to succeed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lesser Words | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

...from the medical school. Between bloody, skull-busting fights, Falangists chanted, "Down with capitalism!" and "Down with the monarchy!" (assuming the students to be supporters of both), and sang an antimonarchist hymn which begins: "We don't want an idiot king who doesn't know how to govern." The anti-Falangist students countered with chants of "S.E.U. no! Falange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Revolt at Madrid University | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

These actions to undermine the activities of two groups flatly contradict the common-sense rules that should govern College groups. Above-board disagreement and rivalries are fine, but underhanded efforts to subvert another club's speakers and activities should certainly be prohibited. This is so obvious that it should not have to be repeated, but evidently there are those presently leading College organizations who do not accept common standards of fair play. If every group employed tactics similar to those of the Republican head, student activities would find speakers leaving Harvard to its bickering politicos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Thomson's Tactics | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...tinkles of a silver bell called France's new National Assembly to order one day last week. But as the 600 men who would govern France fumbled to assemble a government, the center of interest was a man with a monkey wrench who wasn't there-Pierre Poujade, with his roughhouse protest movement, his 52 newly-elected Deputies and his 2,400,000 ballot-box followers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Little Pierre | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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