Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paradox that the Conservative Party, which by definition is opposed to change, to risks of any sort, to anything "unsound," should elect as its leader Winston Churchill, the most daring and, in the word's best sense, most radical leader in the country. This paradox was consummated by a unanimous vote of the Party after the resignation fortnight ago of that composite of conservatism, Neville Chamberlain...
Last week, amid a faint suspicion of judicial complaisance Cuba's tough, bronze little boss, Fulgencio Batista, got the job of President of the Republic, which he had badly wanted ever since he was elected, but not certified, last July. Immediately after last summer's national elections, Batista's varied opposition began to file complaints of some 2,000 local voting frauds which threatened to delay the President-elect's inauguration many months until Cuba's courts could pass on the evidence. But last week Cuba's Supreme Court, which fortnight ago had admitted...
...group will meet in the Kirkland House Common Room on Sunday night to adopt a program and elect officers. It will base its platform on the two main tenets it has supported throughout the controversy, the reelection of President Roosevelt and the sending of aid to Britain and China in their fight against fascism...
...QUOTE THE PRESIDENT BUT EVEN AS REGARDS MY PERSONAL OPINION I REQUESTED NO QUOTATION OF MY OPINIONS WITH REFERENCE TO THE PRESIDENT. THE REPORTING NOT ONLY VIOLATES THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM BUT IS A PART OF THE DISHONESTY THAT IS BEING CARRIED ON IN THIS CAMPAIGN TO ELECT WILLKIE. I AM SENDING YOU A COMPLETE COPY OF OUR CONFIDENTIAL RELEASE TO OUR MEMBERS BY AIR MAIL." MY PURPOSE IN SENDING THIS WIRE TO YOU IS TO ASSURE YOU THAT I DO NOT IMPUTE TO TIME MAGAZINE UNETHICAL REPORTING AS A JOURNALIST NOR IN ANY WAY AS AN EFFORT TO SUPPORT...
Deadlocked after 17 ballots and seven hours of vote swapping, a special convention of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago last week failed to elect a successor to the late Bishop George Craig Stewart, postponed the election to Oct. 25. Commented the Living Church, High-Church Episcopal weekly: "It is difficult for the Holy Spirit to exercise effective guidance in the choice of a bishop when the clergy play politics instead of listening for His voice...