Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career also works in Senator Borah's favor. He is the only colorful contender for the Republican nomination. Part of this color, however, is too greyed over by the years to be of use in 1936. Forgotten is the picture of the young politician who in 1894 helped elect William John McConnell Governor of Idaho and promptly married the Governor's daughter Mamie. Forgotten is the young attorney who in 1907 prosecuted William ("Big Bill") Haywood and two others of the Western Federation of Miners for instigating the fatal bombing of ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg. Forgotten...
...line U. S. building concern, Flintkote Co., makers of asbestos and asphalt shingles and roofing, building paper and other asphalt products. Sir Henri picked it up in 1928 for $8,700,000 cash, receiving the entire issue of Class B stock, which carries the right to elect a majority of Flintkote directors. The Class A stock is traded on the New York Curb Exchange, selling last week for $48 per share as against a 1932 low of $1. With $9,200,000 in assets and seven active and four inactive plants in the U. S. and Canada, Flintkote last year...
...Democrats in this tiniest of States the plank is decidedly distasteful. For many years they have unsuccessfully bucked: 1) the Rhode Island constitution; 2) the stout-muscled Republican machine of wealthy textile mill-owners. By the constitution, Providence, with nearly half the State's 687,000 citizens, can elect only four of its 42 Senators. 25 of its 100 House members. Other cities have representation far below their relative voting strength. The rural communities, stoutly Republican, have kept a strangle hold on the Senate, thwarted every Democratic Governor, permitted him to name only his own secretary and the State...
...Human Blanks. Although Adolf Hitler was in full swing with a campaign to elect an entire new German Reichstag, he had not yet announced this week the names of any of the 661 candidates for whom Germans will vote. Reason: they are all human blanks, der Führer's stooges, and their names do not matter. Latest German electioneering transports were in the remilitarized Rhineland where 25,000 jammed a domed hall from the balcony of which floated a white banner reading, "THE WORLD LOOKS TOWARD HITLER - BUT DER FüHRER LOOKS TO YOU! EACH VOTE...
...manifesto distributed in the South: "Could Catholics murder Mayor Gaynor of New York and then elect a Catholic Mayor of the City? They...