Word: election
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...south Wales, meanwhile, a campaign was started to elect Frank Owen, now Private No. 7956306 in the Royal Armored Corps, as an Independent candidate to Parliament. Until the draft abruptly silenced him two months ago, Owen was one of Britain's loudest objectors to 2D. Crack editor of Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, tall, flamboyant Owen, who called himself a "Sudeten Welshman," had struck awakening punches against British war lethargy, led the fight for a Second Front. He was called up this spring, immediately after Beaverbrook left for the U.S. Some thought it unusual that he was not deferred...
Members of the Class of 1943 will go to the polls today and tomorrow to elect eight men from a field of 32 for the class offices. Positions to be filled are first, second, and third Marshals, Treasurer, Chorister, Orator, Odist, and Poet...
Last week Colby sadly postponed moving day until after the war. Materials to finish its new buildings could not be had. With enough plumbing on hand to equip three buildings for Colby coeds, but no more, the college hearkened soberly to the president-elect. Bix announced that when he takes office in July he will give the college something more important than new buildings-a new educational program built around "one central idea." The idea: how man can better his environment...
George M. Burditt, Jr., of Winthrop House and LaGrange, Ill.; basketball captain-elect; chairman, Freshman P.B.H. Committee, chairman, P.B.H. Social Service Committee...
...council which will take over soon after its election, will appoint the quota of members, and elect its officers immediately, to take office at once, as opposed to the former system under which the new Council was not officially in office until the following year...