Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 19, under Political Note, your comment on the Rhode Island Congressional election is very amusing to us Democrats. I can't for the life of me understand how the election of a Republican Congressman in a State which up until six months ago was run by Republicans is a plebiscite on the New Deal. Maybe the GOP's don't know that the area in question represents less than 1% of the area and population of the U.S. They also forget to mention that the people in Rhode Island have never tried to make a living by growing...
...gets right down to fundamentals. It divides all pictorial art into two simple classes: "Conservative" which looks like what it is supposed to be and "Modernist," which does not. Last year the "Conservatives" were indignant when a "Modernist" won the Art Salon sweepstakes prize. This year they managed to elect a judge of their own choosing, Landscapist Frederic Tellander of Chicago. Great was their chagrin when Judge Tellander looked over the lot, selected River Bend by Marvin Cone, art instructor at Coe College, Cedar Rapids. Good friend of famed Grant Wood, Artist Cone showed that eminent Iowan's stylistic influence...
...conferences, would join together in a new general conference. Incumbent Northern and Southern bishops would retain their posts. The Methodist Protestants would accept two bishoprics, thus signifying that they no longer object to the Episcopacy as they did in 1828. Set up would be six jurisdictional conferences which would elect their own bishops. Purely geographical, five of the conferences would be called the Northeast, Southeast, North Central, South Central, Western. The sixth would innocently be called Central, would embrace 300,000 Negro Methodists, regardless of geography...
Because in Prince Edward Island every winning candidate was a Liberal last week, Liberal provincial Premier-Elect Walter Lea had fun reflecting that under traditional British parliamentary procedure he might be in a quandary since there was nobody to represent His Majesty's Loyal Opposition. Canadian editors joined in facetiously suggesting that Prince Edward Island solve the parliamentary difficulty by voting itself down to the status of a county or up to that of a country. Actually, of course, the British genius for muddling through would easily extemporize a solution, nobody much cared what. Also it was pointed...
...would be most gratifying if they could get together on a $10,000,000 loan. Next day an enormous limousine carried Ethiopia's envoy to Buckingham Palace and, in behalf of his sovereign Emperor Power of Trinity, the Conquering Lion of Judah, the King of Kings and the Elect of God, coffee-colored Minister Martin proceeded to decorate King George and Queen Mary...