Word: supported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lean, 68-year-old law professor's Christian Democrats are 25 votes short of a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. They have 274 seats. Even with the support promised by the Liberals, with 17 seats, Segni would be eight votes shy. The Monarchists are split in two parties with a total of 25 votes...
...Franco's opponents, only the Socialists command anything approaching mass support, and the Socialists are rent by a division between a new generation of Socialists and their leaders in Toulouse, who fought the Spanish Civil War, but are now out of touch. Except for the Communists, almost all opposition groups are willing to see Spain's Bourbon monarchy restored, though only to reign, not to rule. Franco himself is committed to restoration of a king (probably 45-year-old Don Juan de Bourbon), though only after "the Caudillo is no longer with us because God wills...
...manager of a factory on the Volga, stepped to the rostrum to grovel. Pervukhin tried to hold back a bit: "Though I was unable to discern the anti-party group's plans, when the group openly raised the question of changing the leadership, I did not agree or support them." Such a qualified confession was not enough. Planning Chief Joseph Kuzmin got up to say that his predecessor had squandered such enormous sums on high-cost hydroelectric and chemical projects that Khrushchev himself had to interfere and set things right. Four days later, Pravda reported on a back page...
Manuel Prado, banker and boulevardier, swept back in 1956 from eight years of exile in Paris to begin the process of uniting his divided country. He accepted Apra support for the presidential election, in return legalized the party when he won. For this, the oligarchs labeled him a traitor to his class. Actually, the Prado-Apra alliance may avert the class struggle between the oligarchs and the Indian masses that historians (mindful of the Mexican revolution) predict. Apra turned right and met Prado going left...
Both David F. Peterson '59, President of the Young Republican Club, and Derek T. Winans '60, newly elected head of the Young Democrats, said that their respective clubs strongly support the bill...