Word: interregnum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress tried its wings last week, with the Democrats triumphantly in control, it seemed almost like old times. Old familiar faces, which had all but disappeared from sight during the two-year Republican interregnum, turned up again at the head of congressional committee tables. Veterans of the early New Deal, like West Virginia's demagogic Matt Neely, 74, unpacked in Washington, back from political exile. As in the old New Deal days, congressional corridors were crowded with eager Democratic freshmen, anxious to get their first speeches off their chests...
...Walter Lippmann (writing of the expected interregnum): "The course of events cannot be halted for three months until Mr. Dewey is inaugurated...
...Christian Century, under the headline MR. DULLES SHOULD BE NAMED AT ONCE on Nov. 3: "The constitutional interregnum . . . cannot be avoided, but if the President-elect will name his Secretary of State immediately, the damage . .. will be held at a minimum." This week the Christian Century was still calling Dewey "the President-elect...
Filling the vacancy won't exactly clear up confusion for there was little confusion to begin with. The Cambridge City Manager attended to all routine chores during the interregnum--only the School Committee was held inactive. Now that Mr. Neville is elected, the School Committee can roam at will, and signs can once more be posted bearing the mayor's signature. Only one questions remains: do these advantages really compensate for the loss of the famed Councilmen capers? Mayors are good to have, but vaudeville is priceless...
Just as De Gasperi announced his decision after 18 frustrating days of interregnum, the bright evening sun broke through the clouds over Rome, and gusts of wind swept up the city's rain-pelted streets. Many Italians felt that the air had indeed been cleared. Cried the black-curled son of a Rome shopkeeper: "It's wonderful. When the Christian Democrats finally had to choose between a liberal economy and state planning, they chose liberalism. Now we can do business...