Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-two Votes. Of the 376 electoral votes that will determine the next Presidential election in 1943, 88 will be cast by electors from the Province of Buenos Aires. The next largest number, 42, will be cast by the Province of Santa Fe. Fortnight ago Argentines went to the polls in Santa Fe, to elect a Governor who as a matter of practical politics will control the choice of those 42 electors. When the polls closed, everybody thought the Ortiz candidate had won an easy victory. But a few hours later the Conservative-controlled election board announced the victory...
...honest and elect none other than A. Hitler of Germany...
Twelve years ago Madre Conchita was arrested, charged with exerting an occult influence over the assassin who shot down Catholic-hounding President-elect General Don Alvaro Obregon. She was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in the grim penal colony on the Tres Marias Islands. With gentle, biblical good spirits she went to work as nurse, teacher and confidante. Her fame spread throughout her country...
McLane was told, said he, of a plan to elect him international president of the Union of Hotel & Restaurant Employees (of which the bartenders' union is a local), with the understanding that, as president, he would also work for the mob. Testified McLane: "He [Nitti] said he made Browne," and Gangster Nitti gave McLane to understand he could "make" him. If he refused to run for the office, it was implied that he "would be found in an alley." McLane ran, secretly passed the word to his friends in the Federation not to vote...
...Captain-Elect Ames Murphy and Tom Wright, both ineligible last season, are expected to add strength to a well-balanced aggregation, which features no individual stars, but possesses enough all around ability to make it a serious contender for championship honors...