Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Randolph Hearst paid $30,000 to satisfy claims for a fireworks explosion nearly 34 years ago in which 17 persons were killed, 17 crippled for life. Running for Congress in 1902, Publisher Hearst, as President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, arranged a monster pyrotechnical display on election night to celebrate the victory which he and Tammany expected and won. Thousands jammed into Madison Square to see his well-publicized show. On a stereopticon screen flashed a photograph of Congressman-elect Hearst while rockets screamed and zoomed. A spark set off a defective mortar which blew up, felled...
...second year in succession, letermen of the football team had to elect a new captain to lead them, following the resignation of their choice at the close of the previous season...
...Before disbanding the delegates paused to elect a new president. So overwhelmed was A. F. of T.'s right wing by the convention's five-day doings that there was no potent conservative candidate. Winner after two ballots was Yale's Professor Davis. A tall, rugged "radical Christian." Jerome Davis teaches Practical Philanthropy in Yale's Divinity School, scandalizes his colleagues by fraternizing with New Haven strikers...
...Chamber's most important act, the new Bank of France set-up was its sharpest stab of lèse majeste against the entrenched French ruling class. Abolished henceforth are the Regents elected by the 200 biggest stockholders representing the so-called "200 Families." Instead, various branches of the Government appoint 16 Regents, the savings banks another, the Bank's employes "secretly elect" still another and two Regents are chosen by all the Bank's 40,000 stockholders, each having one vote, regardless of his holdings...
Stocky, round-faced President-elect Wildman, 47, is a loyal DePauw alumnus (Class of 1913), is married to a DePauw alumna, has a twelve-year-old daughter who is a prime DePauw prospect. Fortified by these considerations and by the fact that abandoned Methodist preaching for Wildman long teaching, since De-Pauwites hoped that, even though he is eligible for a bishopric, he will turn it down should one be offered...