Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Knowing well that he would be roasted to a turn in the Senate for his tax-spend-elect slogan, but expecting to be confirmed eventually by about a 2-to-1 vote, Mr. Hopkins dived at his new job with all speed. He announced he would retain "Uncle Dan" Roper's impressive Business Advisory Council, most of whose many members are "close personal friends." He asked his specially close friend, W. Averell Harriman, board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and also of the Advisory Council, to come to Washington as soon as convenient. He hired able Political...
...Governor-elect W. Lee O'Daniel of Texas celebrated the season by writing a ten-stanza biographical epic which he mailed to friends. Excerpts...
Hardworking George Berry lost his Senate primary race to Tennessee's Attorney-General Tom Stewart (of Scopes "monkey trial" fame). After Nominee Stewart had gone through the formality of being elected November 8, Senate Financial Clerk Charles F. Pace cut George Berry off the Senate payroll. Clerk Pace assumed that Mr. Berry was not a lame duck but a dead duck, that his tenure as an appointed Senator ended on the election of his successor instead of limping on until the new Congress meets (January 3) and regular Senators-elect are sworn...
...delegation will include Robert E. Lane '39, president of the American Student Union as well as the local branch, and John S. Stillman '40, president-elect of the Harvard Student Union. All men who wish to go along as observers are welcome, stillman, announced last night, and should get in touch with Paul Olum '40, treasurer and vice-president-elect, who is in charge of the University delegation...
...Author. At 42, with 17 plays behind him, Philip Barry is one of the most unclassifiable of U. S. dramatists. He earned his greatest popularity with such smart comedies as Holiday and Paris Bound. But he is most warmly admired by the elect for an ironic fantasy, White Wings. And he has most thoroughly puzzled and stimulated theatre-goers with his mystical play, Hotel Universe, in its intentions something of a precursor to Here Come the Clowns. Two contradictory kinds of talent are apt to keep Barry from ever becoming a cut-to-measure playwright : on the one hand...