Word: election
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the committeemen expected to elect the official host, Secretary Stettinius, permanent president of the conference. Anthony Eden made the routine nomination. Curt and strained, Molotov rose and objected. The conference, he said, should have four presidents, one for each of the sponsoring powers (the U.S., Russia, Britain. China); each of the presidents should take his turn with the gavel, and together they should control all the business of the conference. The delegation heads who made up the steering committee heard this proposal with successive disbelief, dismay, anger: it seemed to them to be a deliberate, pointless affront...
...beaten enemies. The motives of the unpopular military Government were obvious to all: by declaring war and meeting the other requirements laid down at the Mexico City Conference, the regime might snuggle again in the bosom of hemisphere harmony. Thus relieved of pressure from abroad, it might hold phony elections (even "elect" Strongman Perón to the Presidency), stay in power indefinitely...
...great majority of the stockholders in many corporations) have only the haziest ideas about the functioning of the board or of the operating officers, and generally even those hazy ideas are strong. The principal duty of the stock-holders . . . is to elect to the board of directors men (who are) intelligent, honest and (who have) a keen sense of their responsibility as trustees for the stock-holders and for the public policy of the company," Swope pointed...
...fine town-meeting weather. The roads were passable. Spring was on its way. The good citizens of New Hampshire met, as they have every spring for 150 years or more, to elect the township officers, approve or amend the budgets, define the general policy of 224 towns for the coming year. It was the purest and the oldest manifestation of democracy...
Fernald was a member of the News Board on the last Crimson. After serving as Service Schools Editor and Executive Editor of the Service News, he became Editor on March 17, 1944. Editor-elect Headley was member of the retiring Crimson Photographic Board and has held the position of Service News Photographic Chairman continuously from election on November 5, 1943 through his recent service as Co-Editor...