Word: elections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago, when the voters of industrial Jaboatão 1,150 miles north of Rio, went to the polls to elect new municipal officers, they showed their disgust with the incumbent Red-lining regime by electing a goat named Fragrant to the city council. Last week São Paulo (pop. 3,650,000), Brazil's biggest city, was counting the votes after an election for city council, and once more the voters had turned to a four-legged friend. Top vote-getter (100,000) among 540 candidates for the 45-seat council: a five-year...
Since the team will not elect a captain until Monday. Bartolet, who was acting captain for the Tufts game, will direct the squad again today...
What began as an attempt to freely elect a committee for the American group ended in a publicized demonstration of the Communists' method of insuring their idea of "peace". The anti-Communist participants sought to win the election as a matter of principle, and to prevent the small group of Communist Americans working with the Festival organizers from controling the the seminar tickets. Though the Communists never really did effectively control attendance at the seminars, their occasionally clever but mostly crude obstruction earned them an undemocratic brand at the Festival...
...reference to your statements concerning Governor-elect Ross Barnett, we would like to point out that it is common knowledge that he appeals to many of the less fortunate members of our society. However, it is also common knowledge that his strongest support comes from some of Mississippi's leading citizens. A more careful analysis of Ross Barnett will indicate that he is not a "bitter racist," but a benevolent, fair-minded Southern segregationist dedicated to helping the Southern Negro while maintaining Southern dignity and tradition...
...Governor-elect Barnett states that "the Negro is different because God made him different to punish him." I would have felt a lot better had you not mentioned the fact that he was a Baptist deacon...