Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chile must elect a new President within 70 days of a President's death. President Aguirre's Popular Front has been torn by dissension among Communists, Socialists and the President's own Radical Party. It has been attacked from the right by wealthy Chileans resisting the taxation on which President Aguirre built his general benefits. It has been threatened by such dictatorial ambitions as those of Chile's former strong man, General Carlos Ibanez del Campo. President Aguirre was elected in 1938 by a margin of only 2,111 votes, and if his devotion to Chile...
...sees in Pueblo and Cheyenne. Columnist Lee Casey of Rocky Mountain News pointed up the change 81 years had brought: "Denver's first bishop was its first priest; Denver's first archbishop will have two suffragan bishops, 437 priests and 180,250 communicants in his jurisdiction." Archbishop-elect is the Most Rev. Urban John Vehr, Bishop of Denver...
Spencer T. Moseley, captain-elect of Yale's football team, was arrested in New Haven for smashing the glass windows of a dozen parking meters while he was out for a stroll...
...controversy was sparked by an article written by sports writer George Trevor of the New York Sun, urging a relaxation of scholarship requirements. Spence Moseley, football captain-elect, spoke on the subject on the University Forum of the Air program Tuesday night, and John B. Dempsey, chairman of the Alumni Board, asserted in a letter to the News that the graduates were almost unanimously opposed to the plan...
...these groups have agreed to merge into a new and united student organization, and the purpose of the convention is to draw up a program, write a constitution, elect officers, choose a name, and decide on specific activities for the coming year...