Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elections for the marshals will take place March 9, on a preferential ballot. The three with the largest number of votes become marshals, and the fourth becomes a member-at-large of the Class Committee. The next day each House will elect its own representative from the remaining candidates in the particular House...
Members of the Society will consider the constitution and elect officers at an open meeting on Tuesday. Undergraduate and graduate students who join the group before or at the meeting will be able to vote, Harding said...
Presidents & Peddlers. In each country he visited, Nixon called upon the chief of state-President-elect Fulgencio Batista in Cuba, Presidents Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in Mexico and Carlos Castillo Armas in Guatemala-to present a silver-framed picture of Ike and Mamie Eisenhower and to chat about affairs of state. But Nixon also shook hands with and talked to the common people he met at every turn-leather-palmed cane-field workers, ragged fruit peddlers, schoolkids, mothers with babes in arms. Unaccustomed to such free-and-easy mingling, the Latin government officials who escorted the Vice President around often seemed...
...picture's shadowy history was pieced together recently by Art Historian Katharine McCook Knox. A Chicago promoter commissioned the canvas from the most fashionable portraitist of the day, George Peter Alexander Healy, just after the 1860 elections. Healy buttonholed the President-elect at Springfield, got him to sit three times. A visiting politician dropped by the senate chamber in Springfield's old statehouse to watch one of the sittings, later described the scene: "He [Lincoln] sat to the artist with his right foot on top of the left and both feet turned inward-pigeon fashion-round-shouldered-looking...
Concentrators must elect their specialities from six fields: ancient, medieval, Renaissance, 17th and 18th centuries, modern or oriental art. Frederick B. Deknatel, chairman of the Fine Arts Department, likened the program to that first introduced by the Department of History and Literature...