Word: elected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard Neuberger-Senator-elect. Oregon's first Democrat in 40 years...
Georgia's Governor-elect Marvin Griffin, a tireless white supremecist, was determined to get around the Supreme Court's decision against segregation in public schools. Hearing of hopeful talk in Washington that the South will eventually have sober second thoughts about the decision, Griffin drawled genially: "This business of going easy on us doesn't interest me ... I'm not for any cooling-off period. I'm for segregation, period. If the end of segregation comes 50 years from now, it wouldn't be a bit better...
...cozy luncheon at New York's executive mansion in Albany was the roundabout tipoff that Governor Thomas E. Dewey had formally conceded the defeat of his hand-picked successor, New York's Republican Senator Irving S. Ives, in last month's election. Mrs. Frances Dewey played gracious hostess to Mrs. Marie Norton Whitney Harriman, second wife of the state's Democratic Governor-elect, Railroadynast W. (for William) Averell Harriman.*A sometime interior decora tor, Marie inspected the official silver service, then looked over the mansion with a practiced eye. She allowed that "it doesn...
Bill Meigs '54, captain elect of the Crimson eleven, won a starting position on two 1954 All-East football teams last night. Both the Associated Press and the United Press selected him for their first teams...
Bill Meigs, captain-elect, and Bob Cochran, recipient of the Crocker Award, were yesterday chosen to the 1954 United Press All-New England football team...