Word: election
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans also proposed to solve the housing problem, so bungled by the Truman Administration that the solution must be started all over again. Other domestic matters, such as the seating of Mississippi's Senator-elect Theodore Bilbo (see below), will get their early attention. Such important questions as integration of the armed services and universal military training will be postponed until the GOPriority legislation is well on its way to becoming...
...Assembly, itself elected every six years, will elect the President (who may not serve more than two six-year terms) and the Vice President. It will "exercise political powers on behalf of the people," eventually initiating legislation and holding referenda...
Last week Dr. Nash surprised no one by accepting his election as Bishop of Massachusetts* to take the place of the Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, Presiding Bishop-elect of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
Last week, in Atlanta's rambling Piedmont Hospital, Gene Talmadge grew terribly ill-he was suffering from hemolytic jaundice and cirrhosis of the liver. When the word got out, scores of policemen and firemen lined up at the hospital to offer blood. The Governor-elect was given transfusions. But he sank into a coma. One night at week's end he hiccuped loudly. Then his breathing stopped...
Died. Eugene ("Gene") Talmadge, 62, governor-elect of Georgia, who during three previous terms as governor won fame of a sort as the rabble-rousing apostle of "white supremacy"; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Atlanta (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...