Word: slate
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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...
They underestimated Angles. Frankie loosened his ties to MGM. "Then," says he, "I started all over again with a clean slate." He changed his agent, from M.C.A. to William Morris; he changed his record company, from Columbia to Capitol. His voice came back, better than ever; record sales began to climb. He started to freelance in TV on a larger scale, and to look around for roles he really liked in the movies. Along came Eternity. "That's me!" said Frank Sinatra when he read about the roistering, ill-starred little Italian named Maggio. He wanted the part...
...President Walter Reuther called the new name "a happy solution." But other C.I.O. chiefs felt that it was "a conglomeration that we'll have to live with for at least two years." Almost everyone admitted it would present problems for a union like the International Association of Marble, Slate and Stone Polishers, Rubbers and Sawyers, Tile and Marble Setters Helpers and Terrazzo Helpers American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations...
...named a fascinating slate-North Viet Nam, Burma, Indonesia and Siam from Asia; Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Czechoslovakia from Europe. Maybe Japan and Canada might be included, he added blandly. Russia's Molotov, on his way to San Francisco for the U.N. celebration, dropped down on Paris for lunch with Premier Edgar Faure. Reportedly Molotov suggested that Russia and France have many interests in common-such as a belief that a divided Germany is safer than a whole...
...result of the school-board elections in Milford, Del. last week, the area's most notorious citizen, White Supremacist Bryant Bowles of the N.A.A.W.P., learned just how effective all his demagoguery had been. One four-man slate, opposed by Bowles, had firmly announced that it would stand by whatever decision the U.S. Supreme Court makes on desegregating the schools. The other slate had flatly declared itself in favor of "continued segregation," willy-nilly. The winner: the second slate which got 7,647 votes to their opponents...