Word: election
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Present term expires Dec. 31, 1943. when the Federal Assembly will elect another Council for a new four-year term...
...other top-flight scientists who have made their mark in chemistry via petroleum research. One was Per Keyser Frolich, president of the American Chemical Society and director of the chemical division of Standard of New Jersey's potent Esso laboratories. The other was Dr. Thomas Midgley Jr., president-elect of the Society, pioneer in the development of antiknock gasoline, and vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp...
...Republicans elect their candidate for the presidency in 1944 . . . the most important gains of labor would all be swept away within six months. . . . So long, however, as the present occupant of the White House remains there, no fears need be entertained for the cause of labor or the cause of social justice...
...surprise to some. We picked him because during that year he had "carried his country up & up into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world." He was Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Elect of God, Light of the World and Conquering Lion of Judah. Man of 1936 was a Woman?Wallis Warfield Simpson, first to make a King of England swap his throne for a woman ? and 1937's choice was a couple: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...York. Governor-elect Thomas E. Dewey. a longtime Willkie enemy, had read himself out of the 1944 Presidential race. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. who will never forgive Willkie for taking the G.O.P. nomination away from him in 1940, had withdrawn in favor of Ohio's Governor John W. Bricker. Michigan's potent Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg had also withdrawn, in favor of nobody in particular...