Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coachman, Masaryk worked his way through the Universities of Vienna and Leipzig to a Ph.D. in 1876. Two years later he married an American, Charlotte Garrigue, who died in 1923. After a long career of teaching and cafe politics, he founded his own political party, was elected to the Diet in 1907. With the World War, Masaryk, sensing the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, won the Allied powers to the cause of a national Czechoslovakia. First gesture of grateful Czechs was to elect him President, which post he held until failing health forced him to resign in 1935; last...
...Pittsburgh, Andrew Mellon was an officer or director of 160 corporations and worth no one knew how much more than $500,000,000 in 1921 when Harry M. Daugherty is said to have suggested to Warren Gamaliel Harding that he would make a good Secretary of the Treasury. President-elect Harding answered: "I never heard of him," and in so doing expressed not only his own ignorance but that of the U. S. public...
...slow. I'll ruin you." After Vanderbilt had made good his promise. Walker still pig-headedly refused to talk business, thereby cutting off his one important source of outside help. His last and biggest mistake was to elect himself President of Nicaragua. He now faced the armies of all his Central American neighbor countries, brought U. S. and British battleships hurrying to blockade his ports against new recruits. A match for his Central American enemies, even when his man power had dropped to a few hundred, he did not try to fight off the U. S. naval commander...
Since 1910 the Presbyterian Ministers' Fund has insured clergy of all Protestant denominations, has about 12,500 policyholders with more than $60,000,000 insurance in force. It is governed by 60 '"corporators" who elect their own successors, select 18 of their number each year to serve as directors of the Fund. The directors elect the executive officers. WThen Corporator John Wanamaker tried 40 years ago to swing the Fund's business into the general life insurance field he was soundly beaten...
...Stringfellow Barr. a stocky, redheaded, well-dressed intellectual who was long one of the University of Virginia's most popular lecturers but is best known as editor of the Virginia Quarterly, St. John's should prove a stimulating challenge. By last week President-elect Barr had rounded up four bright young faculty-men from Chicago and one from Oxford, where he once studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Barr-Hutchins liberal arts ideal Educator Hutchins described before sailing for a European vacation last week: "St. John's is an excellent place to try out the idea...