Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radical jobless left Trenton angrily threatening to elect their own Representatives through a new Farmer-Labor party. Accustomed to eating the refuse of the jobless campers, onto the State House floors scurried hundreds of hungry mice...
...Houses were to adopt a uniform method of election like the "open primary", it would do away with this possibility for the House Committee to place names on the ballot that were not popular choices. Under an "open primary" set-up, one week before the elections were to take place, the residents of the Houses would vote for the men they wished to elect. The results would be counted, and the three or four persons receiving the greatest number of votes would automatically be put up for the final election. Out of this four, one or two would be finally...
...OARSMAn FOR FOUR YEARS UNDER HIS DIRECTION AND A FRIEND FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE, I WANT TO BRAND THAT YARN AS APOCRYPHAL, UNTRUE, UNCHARACTERISTIC AND HIGHLY DEFAMATORY TO A DISTINGUISHED MASTER OF GOOD ENGLISH, A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT-ELECT AND A GENTLEMAN, DOCTOR SPAETH NEVER LACKED FOR FAR MORE EFFECTIV WORDS THAN THE DREGS OF SPEECH WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF TWO-HUNDRED-WORD ILLITERATES. THE STUFF JUST DOES NOT RING TRUE. STEWART M. ROBINSON...
...filled. Announced candidates for those seats totaled 3,580 divided among more than 20 different parties three weeks ago, but had mounted to 4,807 by the time polling places were opened.* At the end of ten hours, the 10,000,000 voters had only succeeded in electing 179 Deputies by a clear majority of votes cast. All the other districts will have to have a second ballot this Sunday when a straight plurality will elect a candidate. Commentators, soothsayers, fortunetellers, numerologists and betting commissioners promptly sat down to make what they could of election results. A few facts were...
...five members of the Board will elect from among their number a Chairman...