Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...School, Jim went to the University of Mississippi, where he began to display some of the zest for politics he had acquired from his father, one of Mississippi's bigger, behind-the-scenes political operators. Once, remembers Jim, "I had to arrange for a whole board to get elected in order to elect myself business manager of the paper." On another occasion he broke open a ballot box for two strong reasons: 1) to fix the election of a friend as prettiest girl; 2) to filch ballots proclaiming him (as he recalls) biggest liar in the class...
...TIME, Dec. 26) will come to a head when the company asks stockholders to add six directors to its nine-man board at the April 23 stockholders' meeting. Reason for the enlarged board: to water down the power of Lamb and associates, who apparently have enough votes to elect at least four directors...
...beating of drum and gong, 86.4% of the eligible voters in South Viet Nam last week went to the polls to elect the country's first National Assembly. Result: a landslide victory for President Ngo Dinh Diem's National Revolutionary Movement. Despite highhanded campaign regulations that hobbled any organized opposition to Diem, the election was no mere formality. There were many independent candidates in the running. Voters indicated Diem's basic popularity by voting heavily for openly pro-government candidates of whatever party, including Diem's brother and sister-in-law and four of his Cabinet...
...President Odria make his unexpected gesture to APRA? Lima observers reasoned that: 1) he is genuinely anxious to run off a free election; and 2) having failed to form a coalition with Peru's right wing, he is now willing to dicker with the left for the votes he needs to elect a successor who will carry on his cherished economic program...
...testimony given before a state legislative committee yesterday State Senator Philip A. Graham named Pusey as one of 23 incorporators who would elect the corporation's first board of directors. The list, headed by Governor Christian A. Herter '15, includes educational leaders, businessmen, and politicians...