Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beta Kappa will hold its next election on Thursday, November 15 in Dunster House, to elect sixteen members of the senior class. These men are to be chosen from a list of the 32 highest ranking students in the class, excluding the present undergraduate members of the society...
...path was onward and upward. President Taft made him Minister to Chile. President Wilson promoted him to Ambassador, shifted him to troublesome Mexico. President Harding made him Undersecretary of State, later Ambassador to Belgium. President Coolidge appointed him Ambassador to Italy. He got the job of taking President-elect Hoover on a personally conducted tour of South America. Ultimately President Hoover made him Chairman of the Tariff Commission, a job which he did not like and held for only a year...
...shouting "down with this farce of a parade! Give us bread and schools and work!" Meanwhile Government planes bombed the Capital with thousands of anti-Catholic propaganda posters, touting, among other things, the marriage of a famed ex-nun (see p. 62). "The time has come," proclaimed President-elect Lazaro Cardenas who takes office Dec. 7, "to prepare future generations for a new life and outlook...
Nevertheless, the peace treaty had been officially ratified. Rudolf Hecht, ABA President-elect, and three other ABA officials called at the White House. When they departed, Banker Hecht remarked to newshawks: ''We told the President that we were four ball players for the all-American team he proposed. . . . He accepted our proffer...
While he praises the house teams, dances, plays, and committees, yet he remarks further on, "And then you notice that most of this sturm and drang is concentrated in the hands of a few restless individuals so oddly ambitious that they elect themselves to responsible offices, and so slightly occupied that they have time to fulfill the attendant chores. The rest of the student body pursues its own sweet, egocentric way hardly disturbed by the periodic abullitions of these willing horses. More, you come to realize that any three men you select at random will have more friends outside...