Word: slates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Choice. Candidate Stalin headed the slate of Communist Party and Communist-picked nonparty men. Though the results are never in doubt, Soviet elections are taken most seriously. Communist party workers scurry about factories, farms and homes, going through a complicated "primary-election" sifting process that gives millions of Russians the illusion that they participate in their country's government...
...games at Boston tomorrow, however, the squad will not field a full slate. Running the mile relay in the heat against Tech and Cornell will be Arnie Eidleman, "Obey" O'Brien, Ellis, and Bob Clark. Cliff Wharton, who ran the second lap at the Millrose games Saturday, has been disabled...
Fire in the Coal. There had been a terrible explosion, probably far down in the two-and-a-half-mile tunnel, for no sound had been heard outside. There was fire in the coal only 500 feet in, and more fires beyond. There were innumerable slate falls and blockades of rubble. Timbering was shattered, the ventilating system dam aged, and there was blackdamp as well as thick, choking coal smoke inside...
...extremes still dominated Europe's geographical edges. Franco in Spain and Salazar in Portugal were the precarious remnants of the Right. Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania, all in the Russian sphere, had held elections on the one-slate Moscow model, and produced the expected results. But in most of the rest of Europe the Communists, aware that their day had not come, played a cagey game...
...Communist slate for the Dec. 2 national elections already included a banker, lawyers, and professional men. A notable candidate for the Chamber of Deputies was small, shy artist Candido Portinari, famed portrayer of undernourished coffee workers and slick society matrons. Said Portinari, explaining his conversion to politics: "We must all take our posts in this decisive phase of history, whose march no force can detain, because it is more powerful than the atomic bomb." Rio political analysts thought Communist Candidate Fiuza might nose out ex-War Minister General Eurico Caspar Dutra for second place. But most Brazilians were betting...