Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. John A. Pilgard, 69, merchant and Democratic Mayor-elect of Hartford, Conn., after six weeks' illness of abscessed teeth and a gall bladder ailment; in Hartford. Hospitalized early in October, he was elected by an unprecedented plurality, would have been inaugurated...
While the end of the road has not been reached, we congratulate Dick Harlow on reaching the halfway mark. Captain Kelly, Manager Deland, and the squad may be proud of their record for in it Captain-elect Dubiel, Manager-elect Page, and next year's squad will find all the elements of a victorious season...
...Nominee Wilson charging that, as controller, he had diverted some of a $65,000 city appropriation into his campaign chest. Nominee Wilson, one of whose earliest and richest supporters was a contractor named Jerome ("Jerry") Louchheim, countered by insinuating that Nominee Kelly's backing was largely Jewish. On election day 715,560 Philadelphia voters went to the polls, the greatest number in the city's history for any kind of election. What evidently settled the matter was a solid phalanx of Republican jobholders. Forced to hang together or risk losing their bread & butter, Republican ward leaders somehow patched...
Determined partisans can always be counted on to read national significance into the most insignificant of local elections. Because New York is the home State of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his political generalissimo. James A. Farley, its election of Assemblymen last week provided such partisans with a bare bone for gnawing. The President's part was to sit at Hyde Park and serve in silence as a rabbit's foot to bring luck to Democratic candidates. The part of the Postmaster General was to serve, in anything but silence, as the donkey's head. As chairman...
...Hughes 0. P. In the Dominicans' swank Manhattan Church of St. Vincent Ferrer last month was unveiled a statue of Blessed Martin (see cut, p. 46), first of a Negro in any U. S. Catholic church. "Non Sum Papabilis." When the College of Cardinals gathered in 1903 to elect a Pope,the following conversation took place between a Frenchman and an Italian:* "Votre Eminence est sans doute archevêque en Italic. Dans quel diocèse?" "Non parlo francese." "In quanam diocesi es archiepiscopus?" "Sum patriarca Venetiae." "Non liqueris gallice? Ergo non es papabilis, siquidem papa debet gallice...