Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier Menderes used tear gas to disperse the crowds that gathered to hear Inonu, and stood by while bands of toughs pelted the 75-year-old national hero with stones (TIME, May 11). Inonu's tour was part of a vigorous campaign by the Republicans for 21 vacant seats in the National Assembly scheduled to be filled in byelections this fall. Even if the Republicans won all 21 seats, they would not dent the Democrats' gerrymandered Assembly majority (410 to 170), but a good Republican showing might be an omen for 1961 general elections. Apparently Menderes thought...
Hearing insistent rumors that the government will hold elections this fall to fill 21 vacant seats in the Grand National Assembly, Inonu decided to tour...
Moats & Thugs. A windfall came Sooi's way: one of his indignant tenants grumpily moved away. Sooi invited one Jacob Moerland down from The Hague to open a casino in the vacant house, for the benefit of Dutchmen who are not allowed to gamble in their own country. Later, an ambitious Dutchman named Herman Bernhard showed up, opened a competing Benelux Casino complete with free drinks, a parking lot and twelve croupiers. By 1954, five casinos were operating-though not always smoothly. At one point, Bernhard had a moat dug around Moerland's Woodside Club to prevent customers...
...Place to Hide. In Cheektowaga, N.Y., after $10,000 was found in a paper bag in a vacant lot, the money was claimed by Mary Panek, 65, who explained: "I was going away for a few days and didn't want to leave it in the house...
Dustin M. Burke '52, Director of Student Employment, yesterday suggested some possible lines of expansion which the HSA may pursue, including a summer caretaking agency for local homes which are vacant during the summer, a summer housepainting agency, and a furniture leasing operation...