Word: popular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Rene Coty called in ex-Premier Robert Schuman, 71, a Catholic Popular Republican whose name is stamped on the European coal-steel pool. The President asked him to make a quick survey of France's immediate financial crisis before Schuman or someone else attempted to form a government. Warned Schuman: "The problems facing us now must be solved immediately. It is a question of hours...
...which he had just evicted Hussein Suhrawardy. None quite measured up to the President's notions. Then, looking no farther than his partner across the bridge table, Strongman Mirza found just the weak-man he wanted: Ismail Ibrahim Chundrigar, 60, a colorless, back-room politician with almost no popular support...
...impotence when Mirza drew many of its former supporters into his Republican Party. As Prime Minister, Chundrigar will be dependent on the votes of the Republicans and the will of the President. He will also serve the purpose of keeping out of office Suhrawardy, the only man with a popular following that rivals Mirza...
...would retire as president of the University of California in July 1958, the university's board of regents has scoured the entire nation for a successor. Last week they looked in their own backyard−and picked balding, mild-mannered Clark Kerr, 46, since 1952 the able and popular chancellor of the campus at Berkeley...
...maintain leadership and preparedness, he emphasized, the United States must "turn to conventional weapons" for defense, prepare for "limited warfare," and abandon a popular belief, once advocated by General Mark Clark, that the U.S. should "shoot the works for victory...