Word: governance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian Democrats had expected at best to run up a narrow majority over the Social Democrats and the crazy quilt of splinter parties competing for the 484 seats in the Bundestag. Instead, they won a smashing victory, and the right to govern Germany for four more years. In district after district, the Socialists lost strength and Adenauer's C.D.U. gained. Every one of the Communists' 14 seats in the Bundestag-including that of Party Boss Max Reimann-was jerked away from them. The neo-Nazi German Reich Party did even worse than the Communists...
...debates over a constitution for the new West German State, Adenauer threw his weight on the side of a strong executive, which he knew from experience was needed to govern Germany. Adenauer had his way, and, so far, the German constitution that resulted has proved far more workable than the French and Italian systems, which make the executive the prisoner of the legislature...
...will sell its support to the highest bidder. Conceivably it could provide the Socialists with enough extra seats to enable them to govern. Germans call the BHE the "wild card in the pack." It is the party to watch...
...leafy campus of Phillips Academy at Andover, Mass., some 800 delegates of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America (combined membership: 152,395) voted for federal union of the two sects. The delegates also chose a name for the council which will govern the new federation: Council of Liberal Churches (Universalist-Unitarian...
Politics as Usual. In Hiland Park, Fla., 282 people went to the polls, elected C. T. Hartzog mayor, four other citizens as town commissioners, then voted down a proposal to incorporate the community, thereby leaving the newly elected officials without a town to govern...