Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elect Mr. Justice Owen J. Roberts the Man of the Year...
...question the biggest political figure among the twenty-five million people known familiarly as Democrats. That he will accept a third nomination is officially doubted but that he will designate and bestow his blessing upon his successor is unchallenged by all political seers. And from the ranks of the elect he will probably select one of the following three stalwarts, Cordell Hull, Henry Wallace, or George Earle...
...joined the K. K. K., and they have a right to be answered. Did he seriously believe that the Klan, as has been suggested, was a sort of Rotary International to which every good Southerner should belong? Or did he take the oaths because he thought it would help elect him Senator? Or did he really believe in the tenets of the group...
...autobiographical sketch discovered five years ago,* shed little new light on its author's life. But the letter, written when the Constitution was 40 years old voiced sentiments interesting on the Constitution's 150th birthday: "I begin to doubt whether it will be long practicable peaceably to elect a Chief Magistrate possessing the powers which the Constitution confers on the President of the United States. ... I begin to fear that our Constitution is not doomed to be so long lived as its real friends have hoped. What may follow sets conjecture at defiance...
...York City last week somewhat less than 850,000 registered voters-less than half the number who are expected to elect a mayor in November-went to the polls and for the second time in four-years, administered a drubbing to Tammany. In doing so they accomplished what was perhaps the neatest political trick of the season, for the results of the primary gave a broad hint that Mayor LaGuardia, conqueror of Tammany, will have the political fight of his life on Election...