Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comintern manifesto declared that "the ruling classes of Britain, France and Germany are waging war for world domination," while hotheaded Georgi Dimitroff, Bulgarian-born Secretary of the Comintern, scape-goat-elect of the Reichstag fire and personal enemy of Field Marshal Hermann Göring, adopted a "plague-o'-both-your-houses" attitude. In a signed article in the quarterly Communist International, Tovarish Dimitroff performed the neatest logical trick of the week: he called Germany the original aggressor in World War II, said that after the Nazis signed their famed non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union the aggressors...
When all this had simmered down to a broth of truth, something like this remained: The Japanese were greatly impressed by Ambassador Grew's speech. The Government wanted to do something about it at once. But the Army (which usually prevails) wanted first to install Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei in China-accomplish the New Order, and then discuss it. Every Ambassador pays a routine call on a new Foreign Minister; hence last week's conversation. The talk was entirely friendly, and there was no threat. But Ambassador Grew again made clear the nature of U. S. complaints...
Eric Cutler '40, captain-elect of the Harvard swimming team, received honorable mention as a distance swimmer on the All-America team recently by the Amateur Athletic Union...
Last year, however, the class of 1942 voted against class elections, and in favor of the Union Committee's staying in office during the entire year, by a margin of 432 to 179. This action is not necessarily binding on the class of 1943 if it wishes to elect class officers...
...president-elect of the American College of Surgeons...