Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yarborough campaign headquarters in Austin, his supporters whooped it up as the good news came in, reached their peak when they read a congratulatory telegram from Songstresses Patience and Prudence, whose Texan uncles helped Senator-elect Yarborough's campaign. They talked of sending off a wire to conservative Democrat Daniel, who is no Yarborough fan, simply quoting that line from the P. and P. hit record: "So long my honey, goodbye my dear, gonna get along without...
...earth peace, good will toward men," says the King James version, and the Catholic Douay Bible has it "peace to men of good will." Now in the scrolls the idiom is found in its original form: "good will to men of [God's] favor," i.e., the elect in the apocalyptic...
...require a quorum to make vital decisions would be unable to act or pick successors to those killed. Last week, complying with Commerce's new "continuity of management" program, Western Union asked stockholders to approve two simple changes in company bylaws. The changes: 1) remaining board members may elect new directors with "less than a quorum," and 2) surviving vice presidents may succeed the president in order of seniority. Other top U.S. companies have already taken similar will-making measures, including Ford, Standard Oil (N.J.), U.S. Steel, A.T. & T., Jones & Laughlin, Du Pont...
...positions, only one thing is certain: undefeated captain-elect Bob Foster will wrestle at one of them. At the other, any one from among Ed Sullivan, undefeated as a freshman, but injured this season, junior Ted Raymond, and freshmen Steve Weddle and Pete Rogers could fill the position admirably...
...ignore the heat. Pooley's evening Herald has campaigned splenetically for a Juan Smith slate ("The People's Ticket") headed by the county clerk, a third-generation El Pasoan of Mexican extraction named Raymond Telles. The usually mild-mannered morning Times fought a spirited battle to re-elect Mayor Tom Rogers and his board of aldermen. When the Times boasted that its candidate had trimmed the budget, Ed Pooley, a onetime bank clerk, promptly crowed that "the little bitsy budget cut" entailed a saving of exactly "755/1 ,000ths of one per cent...