Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memphis World (Negro daily) completed its poll to elect the "Mayor of Beale Street." Winner: Matthew Thornton, mail carrier, with 12,000 out of 33,000 votes cast. Runner-up: Eddie Hayes, undertaker, 9,000. Salary: none. Duties: greeting distinguished visitors to "the street where the blues began...
When the voters of the ninth congressional district choose between Tom Eliot and Robert Luce, they will have an opportunity to elect an intelligent representative in place of a useless relic. Luce has refused to do anything about evils which both parties have jointly condemned. Eliot has worked to solve these problems in a way that has won the support of Republicans as well as Democrats. Luce, blinded to the needs of his own district, allowed his unreasoning hostility to the administration to spill over in opposition to such a popular measure as the Wages and Hours Bill. Eliot will...
...same time the chairmen will elect a chairman of House Committee chairmen and a secretary...
...organizations in the Red Lacquer Room of Chicago's Palmer House. Purpose: consideration of the proposed Federal health program. Dr. Harrison H. Shoulders of Nashville, Tenn., speaker of the House, Dr. Irvin Abell of Louisville, Ky., president of the Association, and Dr. Rock Sleyster of Wauwatosa, Wis., president-elect, exhorted the delegates. All three opposed "political control," reiterated the A. M. A.'s desire to "benefit the people." Said President Abell, referring to the National Health Conference: "Without calling the organized medical profession . . . into conference, a vast plan affecting health and medical care has been proposed...
...wake of the Panic of 1857, "that nest of gamblers the Brokers' Board" (socalled by a Manhattan newspaper seeking to fix responsibility for the financial chaos) met one day to elect a new president. The jittery board finally picked the one man they thought could steer them out of trouble-Henry George Stebbins, a skilled yachtsman who later became commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Under President Stebbins the New York Stock Exchange weathered the Panic, headed for the dazzling days of the Civil War boom...