Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nicaragua's capital of Managua, Deceiver Somoza had Congress elect to the Provisional Presidency a man of his choosing, Dr. Carlos Brenes Jarquin, 52, had himself nominated by the Liberal Party to run in the regular autumn election...
President-elect Mildred Helen McAfee of Wellesley L.L.D...
Upon leaving Yale, President-Elect Ham need not feel entirely as though he were joining an academic hen party. Among administrators of big U. S. women's colleges he has such companions as Smith's witty Scottish William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken. But Roswell Ham will be the first head man at Mount Holyoke, a jealously feminine citadel since it was founded in 1837 as a ladies' seminary by Spinster Mary Lyon...
...Graduate School, has been a mem ber of Yale's English Department since 1920. When he goes to his new post in September 1937, after President Woolley officiates at next year's centenary celebra tion, Mount Holyoke girls can expect a change in presidential speaking fare. President-elect Ham's specialty is not Peace but the poetry of John Dryden, on which he is a top-ranking authority...
...Nissley McNair promptly walked out of the trustees' meeting, snorted: "This fellow's a Communist. He's been associated with Steinmetz- and they're all Communists." The Mayor's characterization needed no further refutation last week when arch-Conservative" University of Pittsburgh invited President elect Doherty to its Commencement exercises, made him an honorary LL.D. Also honored by Pitt, with an L.H.D., was Editor Douglas Southall Freeman of the Richmond, Va. News Leader, author of last year's Pulitzer Prizewinning biography Robert...