Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eastern diying champion Billy Murphy will lead a three man Harvard delegation -- including captain-elect Pete Alter and defending All-America Bob Corris -- to the NCAA swimming championships at Michigan State University Wednesday through Saturday...
...Captain-elect Alter finished 11th at Yale, and his chances for a big show aren't particularly good...
...comes into conflict with Liberty Valance again when the town has to elect two representatives to the Statehood Convention; Sotddard and the townspeople want statehood--it would mean government protection of their rights, the establishment of schools and the railroad. But Liberty Valance and his guns work for the cattle barons who want to keep the territory for themselves. Valance challenges Stoddard to a show-down, although he knows Stoddard can hardly hold a gun. Miraculously, Stoddard kills Valance, wins Hallie (Tom's former girl), and goes to the political convention...
...years has a member-elect been barred, and only six times since the Civil War has the House exacted the supreme legislative penalty-exclusion.* Drastic as the action was, a majority of the House was determined to make Powell's punishment fit his offenses -and they were numerous. Since he was first elected in 1944, Powell has cheerfully collected enemies with his arrogance, his blatant junketing and his spoiler's role in upsetting arduously achieved compromises. To this woeful record, two investigatory panels in recent months added evidence of payroll irregularities and misappropriation of congressional travel funds...
...general membership meeting of Students for a Democratic Society was interrupted Friday night by the unsuccessful efforts of a group of Young Republicans to elect one of their number to an SDS co-chairmanship...