Word: elections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with steadily mounting opposition from the followers of President-elect Otilio Ulate, who have forgotten that Figueres won last year's civil war for them, he went to the people in a radio broadcast. "Costa Rica," he declared, "must not be at the mercy of a social clique. It must not be committed to a feudal system with a puppet congress manipulated for political purposes by a reactionary group...
...storm center of labor's worst squalls. 'Auto workers, fighting for union recognition, staged the great sit-down strikes. For six weeks the gentle, violence-hating Murphy sat by and refused to throw them out by force, finally settled the dispute by mediation. Michigan declined to re-elect him. But Roosevelt appointed him U.S. Attorney General...
Wagner quit just in time to do his fellow Democrats the most good. Had he resigned after July 8, Governor Thomas E. Dewey could have appointed a Republican successor to serve until January 1951. Now, although Dewey may appoint someone to fill the post temporarily, a special fall election must be held to elect a Senator to fill out Wagner's term. New Yorkers were in for some hot, midsummer politicking. The Senator's unexciting son, Robert F. Wagner Jr., hinted that he would like the job. Tom Dewey said he didn't want it himself...
Some 5,600,000 Belgians went to the polls this week to elect a new Parliament. They cast their ballots with Belgian calm; but one incident in Brussels revealed the social tension beneath the surface...
...Controversy. Dr. Elmer L. Henderson, of Louisville, Ky., chairman of the Board of Trustees, handed out the black spot toward the end of the dull opening session of the House of Delegates in the Hotel Traymore's white and gold American room. Dr. Henderson, later named president-elect in a cut & dried election, began his report on "the activities of the editor" with an admission that "the board ... is aware of the criticism of the editor." Fishbein's name was not mentioned until the next-to-last paragraph. Then there was a suave tribute to his "genius...