Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in recognition of this state of affairs, Mike Romanoff gathered some of his friends together for a historic event. On a vacant lot in Beverly Hills, Ethel Barrymore, Clark Gable, Ann Miller, Ronald Colman and scores of other stars watched as Mike laid the cornerstone for a new restaurant...
...Goldstein, Charlie Weiss, and Vern Drehmel will form the right side punch, with Captain Ted Wolf moving to left outside and sophomore Dana Getchell moving into the vacant left inside post
...Vacant Seats. Korea's political problems were even more difficult. The fundamental political question was whether Syngman Rhee's government was to be tossed overboard. Certain U.N. members, who considered Syngman Rhee "reactionary" and wanted to drive him out of power, said that new elections should be held throughout Korea. Rhee's supporters argued that this would be penalizing South Korea for having been invaded. The present Republican government, they said, was the product of two U.N.-sponsored elections, the second held last May. Since 1948, the Republic had held vacant 100 seats in the National Assembly...
...chair has been vacant since the retirement in 1948 of former Dean Wallace B. Donham...
...South Korea finally went ahead without the north, held an honest, carefully supervised election under U.N. sponsorship. (On the basis of the relative populations of North and South Korea, it was decided to leave 100 of the 310 seats in the National Assembly vacant-to be filled by North Korean representatives if Korea should be unified.) In the elections a majority of South Koreans voted their support of Syngman Rhee. The Republic of Korea was established and Rhee became its first President...