Word: headmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, the opposition Republicans angrily struck back. Totting up the results of recent local elections, they discovered that in four years their strength had been cut from 35% of the elected mukhtars (village headmen) to 17%. Ismet Inonu, leader of the opposition Republicans (and onetime President of Turkey, succeeding the late great Kemal Ataturk) took to the Assembly floor to accuse the government of intimidation at the polls. Premier Adnan Menderes lost his usual sangfroid. Inonu was a "liar," he cried, who "spoke with the coldbloodedness of a professional criminal." He added, staring at Inonu, "God will deal with...
...Drive for Five." When Mintener wanted to enter Ike in the Minnesota primary, the headmen of the Eisenhower-for-President movement in Washington said no. That was Friend Harold Stassen's territory, they said, and should not be violated. But the Minnesotans entered a slate of delegates for Ike, anyway. Some legal technicalities weren't complied with, and the State Supreme Court threw the slate off the ballot. When that happened, 13,000 undistributed "I Like Ike" buttons were shipped on for use in South Dakota...