Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group which beat Milton 25-5 will elect a captain before the meet. Chief threats on the Yardling lists are Tom Lacey in the 175-pound class and Elliott Richardson in the 155-pound division...
...more serious is the fact that the Freshman class will continue to elect officers for whom there is no useful function. These officers will still fill the Jubilee and Smoker committees with their own friends and bask in the light of a prestige they do not deserve...
Upshots were that: 1) the Journal of the United Mine Workers announced "everyone knows that the Daughters of the American Revolution is an aristocratic high-hat institution whose members parade around like peafowls in silks and sealskins and imagine themselves the elect of the human race;" 2) catty whispers around D. A. R. headquarters intimated that one experience with miners had proved that the spittoon equipment of Constitution Hall was entirely inadequate; 3) the miners, 2,000 strong last week trooped through the dingy entrance of the old Rialto Theatre to attend their big meeting...
...there was a suggestion of a smirk on John Lewis' big face when he congratulated the miners for helping re-elect "the only President in our lifetime who has tried to give a square deal to the common people of this country." The President's regrets to the miners' convention in 1936 began "My Dear President Lewis;" fortnight ago it began "My dear John," but John Lewis has been something less than an enthusiastic Roosevelt admirer for nearly a year, has made no bones about his dissatisfaction with the President's handling of Recession...
Into the office of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague one day last week marched New Jersey's Governor-Elect, A. Harry Moore. "Mayor," said Mr. Moore, "this is your birthday and I always come to extend congratulations. Today I thought that in extending my congratulations I could make no better gift than to offer you the United States Senatorship to succeed...