Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico City last week the huge front doors of the nation's chief Cathedral groaned on their hinges, swung open as they do only when an Archbishop is installed or dies. In walked a lean, dark man with horn-rimmed spectacles, Archbishop-elect Luis Maria Martínez y Rodríguez, raised by Pope Pius XI from bishop coadjutor of the provincial diocese of Morelia to be Catholic primate of Mexico (TIME, April 5). Within the Cathedral were hundreds of clergy, wearing habits and vestments rarely permitted them in public during recent years, and thousands of poor, pious...
Under a canopy of gold and silver the Archbishop-elect marched with a procession to the high altar where a papal bull was read to him, formally announcing his appointment. After Mass, Archbishop Martínez began to sermonize. Just as the primate, whose cheerful grin for photographers belies his sober preoccupation with canon law and theology, reached the point where he promised "to comply with the desires of the Catholic people of Mexico," the floor directly in front of him fell in. With a terrible snapping and crackling, the ancient planks parted and 70 people dropped 18 feet into...
Nebraska-born President-elect Jeffers went to work for the U. P. in 1890 as an office boy at 14, successively rose to be train dispatcher, chief dispatcher, superintendent, general superintendent, operating vice president, executive vice president. Last week he declared: "I would rather be president of the U. P. than President...
While studying law at New York University, Mayor LaGuardia was an interpreter on Ellis Island, daily interviewing the types that were his neighbors in his native New York and were later to elect him mayor. He received his law degree in 1910. As a member of Congress for 14 years, he attracted national attention. His shrill voice, squat body and flashing eyes went into bantam-cock motion when he felt legislation was unintelligent and designed for the privileged. His fearlessness, eloquence and ready wit kept him on front pages...
...Chicago's Charles Gates and Rufus Dawes last week joined the other trustees of their alma mater, Ohio's old Marietta College, to elect as president Rev. Harry Kelso Eversull, Yaleman, Republican, for twelve years minister of Cincinnati's big Walnut Hills Congregational Church...