Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mooney, the class prisoner, was a symbol of labor's intolerable servitude. But Tom Mooney, pardoned and free, is a symbol no longer. He is an ex-class prisoner, who, to win his own freedom, led the workers into the enemy's camp [by advocating the election of Culbert Olson, who pardoned him], repudiated the class struggle and helped to elect to office a man who stands squarely upon the precepts of capitalism-a champion of private ownership. Before and since you [Tom Mooney] gained your freedom, you have expressed your intention to labor for a better social...
...Republican candidates in many States, as it is in Washington for anti-New Dealers, Economy was Julius Heil's campaign watchword. After getting elected, with a working majority in both houses of the Legislature, he sat down to draft his budget. State government cost Wisconsin $71,600,000 during the last two years. Governor-elect Heil said he was going to cut that 15 or 20% for the next biennium...
...Year's Day 1929, a confused young man named Roy Riegels picked up a fumbled football, ran 75 yards with it-in the wrong direction. Some 70,000 pairs of eyes saw him do it, and millions of ears at radios heard that Roy Riegels, captain-elect of the University of California football team, had presented the Rose Bowl game to Georgia Tech...
...first Popular Front Government, organized as such, in the history of the Americas was inaugurated fortnight ago in a simple, one-minute ceremony when Chile's President-elect Pedro Aguirre Cerda put on a tricolored sash, symbol of his office. No heart-&-soul revolutionary like Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas, President Aguirre is a top-flight lawyer, a member of the Radical Party and a millionaire landowner...
...American Football Coaches Association met in Chicago for their annual rule-tinkering, they wrote an extraordinary page into the annals of the sport. The world might be going politically and economically arsy-versy, but the coaches failed to recommend a single major football change for 1939. Said President-elect Lou Little (Columbia): "The coaches feel a nice balance has been reached between offense and defense. We are now in for a period of stabilization...