Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Franklin D. Roosevelt landed in Florida from a fishing trip and Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak of Chicago was fatally shot while standing by the running board of the President-elect's automobile. Result: a local politician, named Edward Joseph Kelly, was picked by Chicago's Democratic bosses and appointed by Chicago's City Council to fill Cermak's unexpired term. Last week Franklin Roosevelt again landed in Florida from a fishing trip (see p. 13) and Mayor Kelly, standing for the first time for popular election, polled more votes than any other Mayor...
...light opera mood, the screen rendition of "Naughty Marietta" now playing at Loew's State will please the ear and delight the eye. Jeannette MacDonald, lush and smiling, is at her best as the French princess who flees to New Orleans to escape a rich but gouty husband-elect. In the part of the mercenary Captain who conquers her heart in the New World, Nelson Eddy makes his first bow before a cinema audience which will no doubt place him among its stars. The new addition to the firmament has a pleasingly masculine personality and a good baritone voice...
...company unions, recognition of A. F. of L.'s United Rubber Workers union. Late in the week the National Labor Relations Board hopefully stepped in, demanded that Firestone cease violating NRA's Section 73. The Board accused the company of refusing to allow its employes to elect their own representatives for collective bargaining, of favoring and financing its own union. U. R. W. locals at all three tire plants proceeded with plans to settle the strike issue by workers' polls...
Frederick R. Mosely, Jr. '36, center and captain-elect, and Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, right winger, were awarded the John Tudor Memorial Cup and the Angier Hockey Trophy respectively at a dinner of the hockey, team before vacation...
...Boss Long's ward heelers. There are clubs, organized by his workers, in nearly every precinct or voting district. All jobholders and would-be jobholders are assembled in a shabby little house. They have nothing to lose and may have much to gain by joining. Orders are to elect as many officers as possible, so each club always has a president, several vice presidents, a secretary and many committee chairmen. Then some young attaché of the Loner machine like Herbert Christenberry, brother of the Senator's Washington secretary, makes a speech promising them all a home...