Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seniors today will elect 12 classmates to the Permanent Class Committee from a record total of 71 candidates...
...first presidential journey outside Argentina, Perón had crossed the Andes for a six-day state visit with his old friend and fellow general. His purpose was to discuss with Ibañez, whom he helped elect last September, plans for closer economic and political relations between the two neighboring republics. He also hoped to found a Latin-American economic bloc strong enough to bargain evenly with U.S. commercial power, and to form the basis of the Argentine-dominated South American confederation he has long dreamed...
Tipped off last week that the Belo Horizonte peace ' movement planned a quiet meeting to re-elect the colonel as president, police called in army men and set a joint trap. When the colonel scurried in to join five former leaders of the outlawed Communist Party, the cops arrested the Reds and closed in on the colonel. Shouting "I will not leave here alive," he fell back. The cops, not too sure about collaring colonels, also fell back. For three hours they stood guard until the local garrison commander was finally found at an afternoon movie. "Remove...
...Saturday morning family breakfast last month, Brownell announced his new job by imitating a radio commentator ("President-elect Eisenhower today announced . . . Attorney General Herbert Brownell"). The children were amused by his technique, until they realized that he meant it. Brownell later told friends: "I sat there feeling that they would be rather proud that their father was going to be Attorney General of the United States. I was never so deflated in all my life. The whole family broke into tears because they'd have to live in Washington...
Less than a third of the 789 maids and janitors in the HUERA turned out to elect their first completely new executive board in 12 years...