Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Memel technically went to the polls to elect deputies to its new Diet, but actually the German majority there was holding a plebiscite to return to the Reich. As in regular German elections, the opposition did not dare to campaign. The United Memel German Party won easily, claiming at least 26 of the 29 Diet seats. Said 50-year-old Horse Doctor Ernst Neumann, Führer of the Memel Germans: "We are still Lithuanian State citizens in name, but inwardly we no longer have any connection with Lithuania." Adolf Hitler did not think that last week was a propitious...
While agreeing that this was the immediate issue for the cooperative, one of the sponsoring organizations, the Student Union, declared, through its president and president-elect, Robert E. Lane '39, and John S. Still man '40, that it would "take steps to investigate the sources of the unfortunate relations between the colleges...
Among the honorary pall-bearers will be: President Lowell, Maurice J. Tobin, Mayor of Boston, Leverett Saltonstall, Governor-elect, James Ford, associate professor of Social Ethics, Edward K. Rand, Pope Professor of Latin, and Gustavus B. Maynadier, assistant professor of English emeritus...
...Coffin is one of these elect, and he not only has absorbed the feeling of countrified, sea-bitten Maine, but he has written poems about it that can carry his sensations to those unlucky wretches who have never seen its shores. In his second collection of Pine Tree verses, entitled "Maine Ballads," he treats almost solely Maine men and women...
...speech was one of the four featured addresses at the "Victory Dinner" celebration of the 7-0 triumph over Yale. A crowd of over 400 men, including the complete J. V. and Freshman football squads, also heard talks by head coach Dick Harlow, Captain Bob Green '39, Captain-elect Torby Macdonald '40, and columnist Neal O'Hara...