Word: election
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following Witt's speech, the H. S. U. will outline a new peace campaign and will elect a special executive committee to conduct it. According to Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr. '41, member of the executive committee, the H. S. U. believes that if non-interventionists put on an immediate drive against any further steps towards war, President Roosevelt can be prevented from making the belligerent speech which is expected next week...
Last week Boss Hague was Florida-fit and all set to go. He started the week by filing petitions nominating him for another four years on the City Commission. Jersey City will go to the polls on May 13 to elect five commissioners, who serve four-year terms and choose one of their own number to be mayor. Mr. Hague has been chosen uninterruptedly since 1917. From 160,000 registered voters in the city, Hague workers had collected 125,731 signatures to petitions. Only 766 were required. Said smiling Boss Hague, as truckmen lugged the petitions into City Hall...
...Boss Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, whom most Haitians blame for the border massacre of 1937 (TIME, Nov. 1, 1937). The mob was ill-advised on both counts. Elie Lescot wangled an indemnity out of President Trujillo. And Stenio Vincent loves leisure more than power, would like to take President-elect Lescot's place in Washington, leaving the new President to cope with Haiti's growing unrest alone...
Other speakers were Tudor Gardiner '40 1L, David P. Bennett '41, Miss Louise Sullivan, president-elect of the Radcliffe Student Government, and Robert G. Davis '29, Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English. Miss Jane T. Pike, Radcliffe '41, presided...
Chairman of the rally is Miss Jane T. Pike, Radcliffe '41, who will introduce her classmate Miss Louise Sullivan, president-elect of the Radcliffe Student Government. The girls' delegation will arrive en masse...