Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...margin, Michigan Democrats picked Williams to run in November against G.O.P. Nominee Paul D. Bagwell, Michigan State University communications professor and a political novice. Odds-on to win: Williams. Nominated by the Democrats to run for the U.S. Senate against Republican Incumbent Charles E. Potter: Williams' popular lieutenant governor, Philip A. Hart...
...strong cure, as well as the fact that half of France was on holiday. But overriding all else was the concern expressed even by Historian Siegfried that the alternative to De Gaulle might be a "civil war between a seditious threat and a Communist threat of a popular front...
Clipping Wings. If, as expected, it wins approval of the French electorate when submitted to a yes-or-no popular referendum Oct. 5, De Gaulle's constitution would give France a form of government unique in the Western world, a curious casserole of traditional French, British and U.S. institutions seasoned with just a soupçon of Salazar's Portugal. Implicit in almost every clause of the draft version is a profound determination to clip the wings of the negative and vacillating National Assembly which, under the Fourth Republic, used its untrammeled power to make and smash...
Smiles & Hopes. For the record, non-Communist Venezuelan leaders are making mild protestations. Rafael Caldera, speaking for his Christian Socialist Copei, Democratic Action (A.D.) and the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.), politely turned down the idea of a Popular Front because of the Communist Party's "concept of state order and its international obligations." Last week A.D. Boss Rómulo Betancourt said that his party "does not want Communist help," and Admiral Wolfgang Larrazábal, chief of the five-man military junta, declared that he was a Roman Catholic and that "Catholicism and Communism are antagonists...
Last week, climaxing a two-year investigation of the wonder-drug industry, the FTC accused six major companies of rigging the price on tetracycline, the biggest and most popular of the so-called "broad spectrum drugs," i.e., useful against a wide variety of microorganisms. Tetracycline accounted in 1956 for 24% of the industry's sales dollars but only 7% of the physical volume...