Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign politics? Mr. Roosevelt said he had not thought about it, but would be very glad to see Mr. Willkie (who had said in Philadelphia that he would be delighted to see Mr. Roosevelt). The correspondents marked a Roosevelt-Willkie conference large in their future-books, remembered that President-elect Roosevelt in 1932 was similarly called in by Herbert Hoover...
President-elect Nason is a bright young man. St. Paul-born, he was graduated summa cum laude from Minnesota's Carleton College (1926), studied a year at Yale Divinity School, a year at Harvard Graduate School, went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Since 1931 Mr. Nason has taught philosophy at Quaker Swarthmore. He married a Quaker, two years ago became one himself...
...before he went to Boston in 1938. As Consul in Boston, one of his first acts was to move his office from the dowdy building it then occupied in the business district, take over a handsome brick home on Beacon Hill, where he discreetly entertains Boston's Brahmin elect...
...some time. This is a really unusual record, beautifully recorded with James playing superb six... "Beautiful Dreamer"-more Stephen Foster by Cana Loma, and well done... "No Name Jive," by Charlie Barnet, shows once again how few ideas are in this band, how noisy ... while on the contrary we elect Woody Horman to the post of "Power House King" for his "Get Your Boots Laced Poppa." If you like tremendous drive-here it is-two full sides...
...World Council, the hope of non-Roman Catholic Christians intent on church unity, has yet to hold a meeting, elect a president. Last week there seemed a possibility that this organization might never hold a world meeting. In a Europe dominated by Naziism it would have no place. This sad fact was mulled over in a pamphlet called Can Christianity Survive?, published by a group of churchmen including brisk, baldish Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, U. S. secretary of the Council. Edited by Religio-Political Journalist Stanley High, the pamphlet said nothing new about Naziism's enmity toward Christianity...