Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texas is the only State that was ever big enough to elect a woman Governor. But Texas women are terrific. From Miriam Amanda ("Ma") Ferguson to long-legged Mary (My Heart Belongs to Daddy) Martin, the women of the Lone Star State have been justly famed for their beauty, their temper, their incorruptibility...
Petrouchka, the puppet who came to life, had a counterpart in China last week. After months of adjusting the wires and setting the stage to dangle Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei before Chinese eyes, the Japanese were dismayed to see him wriggle a bit, stand up on his own legs, and come right out with some shockingly out-of-character statements...
Through his Central China Daily News, Puppet-elect Wang said: "Japan's willingness to make peace with China does not signify friendliness but Japan's inability to defeat China." Japan, he declared, must either cooperate economically with China as an equal, or withdraw entirely. Later in the week he warned that the "new China would not agree to support Japan in any future...
...dismay, or an occasional manly three-times-three. At Harvard, substitutes or injured players first led this protozoic cheering-either a "short Harvard cheer" or a "long Harvard cheer." At the University of Southern California, prim-collared professors directed the yells. Minnesota was one of the first colleges to elect a "yell marshal." His whole duty was to get the spectators to recite in unison, "Rah-rah-rah, Ski-u-mah, Minn...
...gridiron squad has already hung up its moleskins for good, and its last act will be to elect the 1940 leader. This afternoon at 3 o'clock 22 lettermen meet in Dillon Field House and cast their ballots to find a successor to ill-fated Torbie Macdonald...