Word: nai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...related developments, the CRIMSON learned that a New England branch of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League is making a thorough study of Wang's activities. Isidore Zack, an ADL staff member, said that the League is planning to make a statment on Wang's visit sometime next week...
...Capitol Hill on the double, to win back doubting Democrats, came skirmishers from the A.F.L-C.I.O., the American Civil Liberties Union, the Society of Friends, B'nai B'rith and the N.A.A.C.P. Doubting Republicans received telephone calls from aides of Attorney General Herbert Brownell. Presidential Administrative Assistant I. (for Isaac) Jack Martin hurried over from the White House, stationed himself on the Republican side of the House lobby to buttonhole members...
Last week, as an estimated 5,000,000 Thais trooped to the polls, Bangkok was a Jersey City in Technicolor. Charges of fire-carding, parachuting and hooliganism echoed and re-echoed. "They're cheating plenty," complained Democrat Nai Khuang, angrily waving what he said were government-doctored ballots. "I deny everything," retorted Air Force Marshal Feun Ronapakart...
...only did Pibul lead all other candidates in Bangkok, but the sole woman candidate elected turned out to be his wife, Lady Laiad. True enough, two of Pibul's ministers were defeated and at least 26 seats had fallen to Nai Khuang and his Democrats, but at week's end, with 135 seats accounted for, Pibul's men had won 77-more than enough to assure the Premier control of even the free half of Parliament...
Sulks & Sabre Jets. No one was happy. The Premier, disappointed in his hopes for "a landslide like Eisenhower's," retired to the seashore in a pet. Nai Khuang and his fellow Democrats, egged on by Redlining leftists (who got only nine seats). declared that they had been defrauded, and demanded nullification of the Bangkok election. Crowds of protesters began to mass on the streets...