Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formality had to be observed, even though the outcome was never in doubt. Last week 81,500-odd "Grand Electors" of France-deputies, senators, mayors, deputy mayors, municipal councilors-elected the first President of the Fifth Republic. There were three candidates: an obscure Communist mayor, a Sorbonne dean, and Charles de Gaulle...
Explained Mrs. Pat Mettil, 35, mother of four, and elected by the new city council to be the first mayor of the city: "We always looked forward to self-government. We thought American citizens had a right to make their own mistakes...
...Last Hurrah. A brogues' gallery of Boston Irish politicos, headed by Spencer Tracy as lovable, larcenous Mayor Skeffington, who fades out with the kind of bathos that could even dissolve an Ulsterman in tears...
...white cassocks, topped by a Homburg. He lost the election, but while his opponent went off to Paris, the abbé's admirers refused to believe that he had lost, and took their problems to him as if he were their actual Deputy. In 1956 Youlou was elected mayor of Brazzaville (pop. 100,000) in a landslide. By the time Charles de Gaulle visited Brazzaville last summer, the abbé was able to greet the general three different times in reception lines, by appearing in his three different capacities-as mayor, assemblyman and Minister of Agriculture...
...President handled his first problem-a strike-producing dispute between the government party's incumbent mayor and his never-say-die opponent in San Luis Potosi's mayoral election campaign-with forceful directness. He mobilized 3,000 troops, broke up demonstrations, restored order. This week the voters went to the polls through well-guarded streets right on schedule...