Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loose-tongued Mr. Williams' chief was also on the defensive in the newspapers last week. To the New York Times Harry Hopkins wrote a letter denying that he ever said, as reported by Timesman Arthur Krock and others: "We will spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect" (TIME, Nov. 21). Timesman Krock replied: "Among those who heard it is a most reputable citizen of New York and, in lighter hours, a playmate of Mr. Hopkins. They were at the Empire [City] race track in Yonkers at the time. . . . Had I not verified it and been assured that...
...Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson of Philadelphia, an off-&-on Republican, issued invitations to Republican Governor-elect James of Pennsylvania and other interested parties to come and discuss the third city's financial plight. Mayor Wilson revealed that his deficit now tunes up to some $40,000,000. Happier news for Mayor Wilson last week was the quashing, by Common Pleas Judge Harry S. McDevitt, of 21 indictments charging him with misbehavior in office...
...Following vote-fraud charges by Governor-reject Tom Dewey during the campaign, Governor-re-elect Lehman of New York ordered a special grand-jury investigation of balloting in Albany County-the one upstate county carried by Mr. Lehman...
...juicy bit of post-election hellzapoppin was promised by Representative Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts, prospective Republican floor leader of the House in the 76th Congress. He said last week that an investigation had been launched into the qualifications of Dr. Rudolph G. ("Dr. Ten") Tenerowicz, Democratic Congressman-elect and mayor of Hamtramck, Mich...
...Frank Foley, Dave Glueck, Nick Mellen, Tim Russell, Chief Boston, Mike Cohen, Ben Smith, Win Jameson, Jim Fearon and Bob Burnett played their last game for Harvard. They will meet tomorrow with Joe Gardella, Torb Macdonald, Tom Healey, Bill Coleman, Mose Hallett and don Lowry, the other lettermen, to elect next year's captain