Word: na
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Recto called a press conference to announce his "irrevocable decision" to run for the presidency in November, "whatever the odds and however adverse the circumstances." In the light of Magsaysay's popularity, the circumstances were certainly adverse: the Na tionalists are sure to renominate Magsaysay, and there is a strong possibility the opposition Liberals will...
...attitude towards satellite na tions was stated by John Foster Dulles in Dallas just ten days before the election, and largely overlooked in the election excitement. The captive peoples, he said, "must know that they can draw upon our abundance to tide themselves over the period of economic adjustment" after breaking free of Moscow. What if these governments, like Gomulka's in Poland, are Communist? The U.S. does not "condi tion economic ties between us upon the adoption by these countries of any particular form of society." He also had a message meant to be digested in Moscow...
...Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner in Detroit's Masonic Temple, Adlai Stevenson struck fire to the new issue: the na ture of the presidency and its relationship to Dwight Eisenhower's health...
...jail and five years' suspension of his civil rights, i.e., his all-important right to run for governor of Sao Paulo in 1958 or President again in 1960. The latter penalty was a grievous blow for Adhemar; he ran a close third in last October's na tional election, racked up a solid 25.7% of the total vote, and was already organizing for the 1960 presidential campaign...
...them undoubtedly have, it still remains true that military tribunals have not been and probably never can be constituted in such a way that they can have the same kind of qualifications that the Constitution has deemed essential to fair trials of civilians in federal courts . . . From the very na ture of things, courts have more inde pendence in passing on the life and liberty of people than do military tribunals." Article 3 (a), the court continued, "deprives of jury trial and sweeps under military jurisdiction over 3,000,000 persons who have become veterans since the act became effective...