Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Contestee Roy an edge of 17 votes, which a third upped to 24. When Mr. Jenks claimed that 34 Jenks ballots cast in the town of Newton had been lost in counting, New Hampshire's Republican Secretary of State certificated his victory. Congress seated him with other members-elect at the beginning of the session...
Politely knocking at the portals of public service for some time have been James Henry Roberts Cromwell of Somerville, N. J. and his pretty young wife, Doris ("Richest Girl") Duke, who gave $5,000 to re-elect New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore, $50,000 to help re-elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last week their knock was answered. Governor Moore appointed 25-year-old Mrs. Cromwell, who made a tour of southern resettlement projects last year with Mrs. Roosevelt, to be a member of the N. J. State Board of Control of Institutions & Agencies, to help supervise...
While preserving its democratic customs, in 1932 San Marino gave its Fascist Party a majority of seats in the Grand Council (unicameral legislature). Last week another election gave the Fascists every one of the Council's 60 seats. Future business on the Council's agenda for October 1 will be to elect two Captains Regent for six-month terms. Both wear special uniforms and sit side by side on a double throne to denote equal authority...
...many ways Eton is more modern than newer schools. Discipline (except for shirking studies) and games are almost entirely in the students' hands. The members of Pop and of "The Library," elect their own successors, make rules, impose punishment. Fagging (running errands and making tea for their elders) humbles young aristocrats...
...Stated" or settled in his post, the Clerk nominally holds office for five years, but the terms of the last two, Rev. Dr. William H. Roberts and Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, totaled 56 years. At the annual Assemblies of the church, the Moderator (elected for one year) presides, but between times the Stated Clerk, resident in the "Presbyterian Vatican" in Philadelphia's musty old Witherspoon Building, directs the activities of the church, answers hard questions on church law, handles all documents, acts as a one-man committee on Assembly arrangements and the credentials of delegates. Last week, with...