Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fixed by Lenin, Soviet tradition provides for voting by show of hands in the local Soviets. These elect higher Soviets which vote similarly by show of hands clear up through the All-Union Congress of Soviets (see above). Since in Russia it takes uncommon courage to get up in meeting and oppose the Communist Party, Comrade Lenin considered his system almost perfect. To make it utterly perfect he wrote into the Soviet Constitution that the vote of one presumably radical "proletarian" or factory worker shall equal the votes of five presumably reactionary Russian peasants, thus assuring the so-called "Dictatorship...
...appears that the American Legion, as part of the U. S. voting public, has helped to elect the present Congress which is even now preparing to pass upon the appropriation of $4,000,000,000 of tax money for putting men to work...
Sixty-two students who registered on Monday for the Extra Session of the Graduate School of Business Administration, will have the first opportunity to elect the recently announced program in the business aspects of Public Administration...
...Board of Overseers and former Governor of Maine, will be toastmaster for the occasion. Speeches will be given by William, J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and Master of Eliot House, and by J. Robert Haley '36, captain elect of football...
Theta Phi plans to elect men of "a high ethical conception of the ministerial calling, scholarship and a scholarly attitude toward truth, and distinction in service and achievement." Theta Phi's insignia: a gold key bearing Greek letters and three bars shaped and colored to represent the stripes on the sleeve of a doctor's academic robe. Its membership will be of two classes: students and older churchmen. First two institutions to get student chapters are Colgate-Rochester Divinity School (Rochester, N. Y.) and Southern...