Word: elective
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week in the Security Council, the U.S.S.R. cast a veto-its 46th-against another five-year term for Lie. The General Assembly cannot re-elect Lie unless the Council so recommends. But, the Assembly, which fixed his original term, can -and probably will-extend Lie's present term of office...
Last week Tito's Yugoslavia went egalitarian. A government decree, effective Nov. 1, closes all special food stores that serve party members and officials. Urban Yugoslav Communists will have to carry ration cards like other city dwellers. Special rest homes and resorts for the elect will be closed. Government agencies are forbidden to buy carpets, curtains, pictures and other items of interior decoration. After Nov. 1, nobody will be able to get free gasoline...
When in the next year the trustees set out to elect a president of the University, Einstein supported Harold Laski, professor at the London School of Economics. But the board desired an American educator and Einstein, displeased, dropped his name from the list of the school's supporters. In 1948 the Board elected Sachar as president of Brandeis. Then retired, Sachar had been an important educator--a recipient of Cambridge University's first Ph.D. degree--and for 14 years the head of Hillel Foundations...
Students will elect council members to to serve from February to February in December in the futude instead of for the regular academic year, according to a constitutional revision approved last night...
What Kind of Congress? "The issue is the same in Illinois as in Ohio," said Taft. "Whether we are going to elect an independent Congress or a rubber-stamp Congress . . . Are we going to establish a socialistic state? If you elect a Democratic Congress and if you move them just a little to the left of the present Congress, you will get the whole [socialist] program...