Word: regain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mendes-France. Both Edgar Faure and Mendes-France, old friends who are now open enemies, belong to the same center party, the Radicals, but while Faure holds office by getting the right to support the center, Mendes-France wants to regain office by uniting left and center. To organize his new non-Communist left, Mendes-France needs time, and by calling for early elections, Faure hopes to deny him that time...
...unofficial first ballot count indicated yesterday that the Cambridge Civic Association, which pledges to be "more sympathetic to Harvard", will regain a majority in the City Council election by a 5-4 margin...
Negro papers, such as the Pittsburgh Courier, biggest local Negro weekly in the U.S., are switching to tabloid form and a broader news policy in an attempt to regain circulation (the Courier has plummeted to a little more than half its 1948 peak of 358,000). While some Negro publishers still make a fat living, they generally lack capital to modernize plants and beef up skimpy staffs...
...Councillors in the last session were able to demonstrate good government only as a minority of four on the nine-man Council. This year, the CCA is trying to regain the majority control it had held for a decade before 1953. It has screened all candidates and come up with a non-partisan slate of ten, including its four incumbents Edward A. Crane, Joseph A. deGuglielmo, Marcus Morton, and Hyman Pill. The CCA has also endorsed Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, who has just completed a successful term on the School Committee, as well as Edward G. Bellis, Martin T. Camacho...
University officials have indicated that Harvard will not interfere in the current battle of the Fletcher School to regain its independence from Tufts...