Word: election
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American farmer. Having fed the world by pulling another bumper crop out of the magical hat, he has now proceeded to elect himself a President...
...Elected as new Council president white-haired Bishop John Samuel Stamm, 70, of the Evangelical United Brethren. Son of a lay preacher, jovial, ham-handed John Stamm grew up on a Kansas farm with an early hankering to be a soldier in the Spanish-American War (he was "just too young for the job"). As good an administrator as he is a preacher, President-elect Stamm has served as vice president of the Federal Council for the past two years, under the presidency of Layman Charles P. Taft. He doubts that his administration will "set the world on fire." Said...
...Since our beginning we've grown," commented president-elect Brown. "Under the new system we will get a chance to look over the flock of new competitors and decide who can work...
Every year the Chicago Tribune sends out ballots to all major collegiate football teams. The players then elect the men they feel were the outstanding players of the year...
Maryland's Governor-elect and a newspaper writer were on the panel...