Word: selections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end a tumultuous convention in the government-owned Manila Hotel gave complete power to a Magsaysay-controlled executive committee to select a nine-man senatorial slate from the 55 candidates nominated on the floor. Then the 900 Nationalist delegates listened passively to a passionate speech by old Party Leader Jose P. Laurel, affirming his loyalty to Magsaysay but nominating his old friend Recto for a place on the party ticket. But Recto had little expectation that the executive committee would have him. He would run for the Senate anyway, possibly as an independent, he announced...
...used them to confirm his choices of Robert Wagner (over Vincent Impellitteri) for mayor of New York City in 1953, and of Harriman (over Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.) for governor in 1954. Says De Sapio: "You can't impose your will on the people any more. If they select the candidate in a poll, they'll elect him." De Sapio's surveys also serve the practical purpose of deflating the political stock of the candidates he plans to oppose, and inflating the prestige of the man he favors. Carmine De Sapio has lost some elections...
Working late Saturday night, the House made a show of efficiency by passing 260 bills in a single day. But most of them were private bills, of little significance to anyone but their legislative sponsors and select groups of constituents. Among the measures that might otherwise have been important the House action often came too late to have much current meaning, e.g., the House held up the natural gas regulation bill for months, then passed it at the last moment by a six-vote margin. Then the House leadership was indignant because the Senate decided it had not received...
Some of Manhattan's department stores and some of suburban New Jersey's dress shops were getting used to a new kind of invasion last week. Potential customers enter, inspect the dresses and select the models worthy to bear a tag proclaiming them fit for a Roman Catholic girl...
...Arabia I saw many slaves of my race. There are slave markets in all the big towns there. The slave traffic starts at sundown. The big chiefs examine us and select those they want, just like at a camel fair. You can buy a man like me for a pinch of gold." Ex-Slave Awad El Goud is only one of many French African Moslems who have been kidnaped into slavery as pilgrims to Mecca. Last week his story was told in Paris by Emmanuel La Graviére, Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course...