Word: ministership
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nehru's most loyal lieutenants and who, like his leader, comes from Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state and the traditional breeding ground of Congress Party leaders. If Shastri is disqualified -he had a heart attack in 1959-a leading contender for the prime-ministership would probably be S. K. Patil, 63, a right-winger who runs Bombay with brisk efficiency and until the Cabinet purge coped ably with the thankless job of Food Minister, though grain shortages prompted the crack that he "gave India food-for thought...
...Douglas-Home's shrewdest appointments, to the crucial job of party chairman, was Labor Minister John Hare, 52, a hardworking, true-blue Tory. As for Sir Alec's defeated rival for the prime ministership, Rab Butler, he had always wanted to be Foreign Secretary (Harold Macmillan denied him the job), and Rab made his debut last week at a Western European Union conference at The Hague with complete professional aplomb...
...have gone into effect until Parliament was dissolved for the next election, which need not be held until fall 1964. That, to the Lords, looked suspiciously like a maneuver to keep Hailsham from getting into the political swim, presumably engineered by some of his rivals for the prime ministership-or even by Harold Macmillan, who is sounding increasingly reluctant to step down. When the bill reached the Lords, they voted to amend it to make it effective as soon as the Queen approved. To avoid a fuss, the Tory Party went along with the amendment in the Commons...
...first time Cheddi Jagan, 43, the East Indian dentist-turned-politician, won the prime ministership of British Guiana in 1953, his aggressive Marxism and strident anti-imperialism so outraged Her Majesty's government that 1,600 British troops landed in Georgetown to throw him out of office. Now, still breathing defiance of imperialism, Jagan is Prime Minister again, and last week had to call on British tommies for help-to save him from mobs roaming the streets calling for Cheddi Jagan's hide...
...October congressional elections. The movement is working to get Quadros nominated for Parliament in every one of Brazil's 21 states, and to push a full slate of pro-Quadros candidates. The hope is to win a parliamentary majority and thus sweep their hero into the prime ministership (which, in the hands of a strong-willed man with a fresh mandate, could be a powerful office...