Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Burton K. Wheeler, whom I helped to elect, makes myself and a hell of a lot of other Mountain citizens sick with his anti-Roosevelt policies. I think that he should receive the same punishment that I would have received had I divulged vital military secrets to the entire world. I would also like to state that most of us Mountain boys are not afraid of Herr Hitler or anything he represents, and just as soon as President Roosevelt gives us the green light, we will...
...went off to jail for ten years for tax evasion, tall, bald "Nucky" Johnson got married. The 58-year-old political boss of Atlantic City for three decades took as his bride ex-Showgirl Florence Osbeck, 33. ≤≤ Molly O'Daniel, 19, daughter of Texas' Senator-elect W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, married Oilman Jack D. Wrather Jr., 23, in the executive mansion at Austin. Pappy had invited everybody, but most of the 6,000 who showed up never got inside, ≤≤ Joe Louis was ordered to double his wife...
Last week came word that Prince Michael had turned the Axis kingmakers down flat. Said the Prince: "I am a Serb. As a Serb I shall never betray King Peter." After refusing the job, said London reports, the puppet-elect was promptly interned in Germany...
...human freedom. These quotations, says Co-Editor Josiah Wedgwood (who last week was shushed by the British and sent home to Britain because he said unkind things about Isolationist Senator Wheeler), "furnish both sides of the Atlantic with Masonic passwords: quotations that will always be recognized by the elect." Among the great quotations the elect may recognize: II Corinthians iii, 17; John viii, 32; Psalm 140; the Golden Rule; Patrick Henry on liberty; the Declaration of Independence; Rule, Britannia; Byron's Sonnet on Chilian; Shelley's Masque of Anarchy; Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience...
Among the great quotations about which the elect may need refreshing: King Ethelred's promise; extracts from the Magna Charta; the Virginia Bill of Rights; libertarian exhortations by J. S. Mill, Henry George, Wendell Phillips, Daniel Webster, Thomas Paine, Emerson, Milton, General Smuts, Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, Cordell Hull, Harold Ickes, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt...