Word: elected
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Thus last week opened the first new Parliament of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. With the traditional show of reluctance, Speaker-elect W. S. ("Shakes") Morrison was duly "dragged" to his chair by his sponsor and seconder. Next day he was conducted to the House of Peers, reported back that he had, in the Commons' name, "laid claim, by humble petition to Her Majesty, to all your ancient and undoubted rights and privileges, particularly to freedom of speech in debate, freedom from arrest, freedom of access to Her Majesty whenever occasion may require . . ." From...
...fresh invasion. This one was noisy but peaceable, consisting of a stream of orating visitors from the Italian mainland. The attraction was not Sicily's resources or its harshly lovely geography, but its political loyalties. As a semi-autonomous region of the Italian Republic, Sicily was preparing to elect a new regional parliament...
...Chairman-elect Chamberlain was a 24-year-old dress designer in London when she heard her call to the church ("At first it seemed a bit highfalutin. But I just couldn't do anything other than be a minister"). She took a B.D. at King's College, London University, in 1946 was appointed first woman chaplain to the armed forces. The next year she married a Church of England priest, the Rev. John Carrington. For a while she was pastor of the Vineyard Congregational Church in Richmond, Surrey, about four miles from Hampton, where her husband is vicar...
Coach Bill McCurdy, entering a sixman team in the meet, got fourth places from Captain Bob Rittenburg 'and Captain-elect Art Siler...
Massachusetts Congressmen (including Republican Leader Joe Martin) were acutely aware that one of the House seats to be given Alaska and Hawaii would be from their state, which barely qualified for its present number of seats under the last population apportionment. Said Massachusetts Republican Donald Nicholson: "We will elect somebody in Hawaii or Alaska to represent my state." Chimed in South Carolina's W.J.B. (for William Jennings Bryan) Dorn: "Is it not true that if our friend from Massachusetts were to lose his seat ... he will lose it to a man whom we have deported...