Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Education Association. One candidate, Caroline Woodruff of Vermont, arrived in Denver for the N. E. A. convention with a carload of maple syrup. Another candidate's followers rolled into Denver on a noisy "Annie Carlton Woodward Special" from Massachusetts. Annie Carlton Woodward's demagogic platform: "Elect a Classroom Teacher." Candidates Woodruff, Woodward and Agnes Samuelson of Iowa settled down to a week of strategic breakfasts, luncheons, teas...
...Paul police force. There was a grand jury hearing, followed by a whitewash delivered over the radio by the foreman just as the late John Dillinger was shooting his way out of a local apartment house. But the Daily News's agitation last year helped St. Paul elect a reform Mayor who appointed as Commissioner of Public Safety Henry Edward ("Ned") Warren, a conscientious citizen who came fresh to politics from his automobile salesroom. Commissioner Warren wanted to import Alexander Jamie of Chicago's old "Secret Six" organization as police chief. In spite of Jamie's record...
...young man called on him, introduced himself as Ira H. Latimer, Chicago radio news commentator. Brought up under the name of Jenkins by his mother and her second husband, Ira Latimer had long suspected that Thomas Latimer was his father, knew it when he read that Minneapolis' Mayor-elect was born in Hilliard. Thomas Latimer demanded proof, got it. Chief guests at his inauguration last week were his son, daughter-in-law, two-year-old grandson...
Members of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects held a quiet meeting last week to elect a successor to President Ralph Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker. There would have been nothing newsworthy about the affair but for the name of the new president: Hobart Brown Upjohn...
...producing members now are Sam Goldwyn, Charlie Chaplin, whose new, unnamed "Production No. 5" will be released in August, and Mary Pickford, who plans six pictures next year. In Hollywood last week, Producers Goldwyn, Pickford and Chaplin held all-day meetings, lunched for five hours, arguing about whom to elect president to replace Producer Schenck, where to find a new producing organization to replace Twentieth Century...