Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faubus was working for political reasons-to keep from losing the governorship when his term expires. The "calling out of the Guard for public safety" certainly surprised most peace-loving Arkansas people. Thanks for your unbiased report...
...expected, California's Senator William Fife Knowland last week said: "I shall be a candidate for governor of California in 1958." He pledged himself to serve out his "term or terms," but when asked if he might still be a presidential candidate in 1960, he replied: "No one has a crystal ball for 1960-or 1964." Vice President Richard Nixon's supporters immediately prepared to throw support to Knowland in his fight for the G.O.P. nomination against Governor Goodwin J. Knight, and the influential, conservative Los Angeles Times, already committed to Nixon for President in 1960, hinted that...
...supported the Philippines against Yugoslavia, arguing that the 1945 gentlemen's agreement had been intended to last for only two years. As a compromise, it was finally agreed that Yugoslavia and the Philippines should each occupy the disputed seat for half of the normal two-year term. Japan's election carried U.S. strategy a step further. By backing an Asian nation, the U.S. had weaned part of the Afro-Asian bloc away from the Soviet candidate, seemed well on its way to nullifying the so-called Eastern European seat...
...purchasing from the U.S. to the U.K., would send a high-level trade delegation to Britain, and would consider lowering barriers against purchases in Britain by Canadian tourists. For his part, Thorneycroft soothingly took the steam out of his free-trade proposal by describing it as such a long-term project, i.e., twelve to 15 years, that he expected no official Canadian reply...
...oldest man ever to serve in Congress, Rhode Island's peppy Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, turned 90, reaffirmed his aim to be re-elected in 1960 (he would be 99 on completion of that term), prepared to hop off this week on a tour of northern NATOland. Globetrotting Bachelor Green also swapped wired congratulations with a younger whippersnapper from Arizona who turned 80 the same day: Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, who has served longer than anyone else in Congress (he entered the House in 1912 as a youngster of 34). At a birthday whoopdedoo in Phoenix, Hayden...