Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor on the Democratic ticket: eleven-including Busman Burton Schoepf, who partly financed his campaign by issuing $1 stock certificates which bore the redemption clause (and a grammatical howler): "When elected, this certificate will entitle the holder to have luncheon or dinner as my guest at the Mansion." For Senator on the Democratic ticket: six, including Incumbent Charles O. Andrews, Governor Fred Preston Cone, Charles Francis ("Socker") Coe, author of Me-Gangster, and Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story Magazine, Physical Culture, True Love and Romance. Declared Mr. Macfadden: "Teeming vitality is of course important, but a Government that...
...curly-haired President Busch, 35, acted even more dramatically. He gave a birthday party for his beloved Japanese brother-in-law and at the height of festivities was found dead, "officially" by his own hand. Last month Bolivians went to the polls for the first time since 1931 to elect a President and chose the Army's choice-General Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo, not too smart politically and "friendly" to the local "interests...
...voting was scarcely done the North American Way. The voters had been given no opportunity to elect anyone who had not fought in the Chaco War. That invalidated the two other candidates. But General Peñaranda no sooner donned his sash of office than he began to claim democracy had been restored, to talk about how warmly he will "welcome" and "guarantee" foreign capital invested "to improve communications and build hydroelectric plants...
...Ferguson and 900 other guests (roast Texas steer). Then on 160 miles to Tyler, the East Texas oil fields blazing fountains of burning gas in the hot night; to bed at 1:30 a.m. In Shreveport, La. a holiday crowd of 10,000, and a reception by Governor-elect Sam Jones; to Jackson at midnight, to bed after the usual talks with politicians, the usual three glasses of milk...
During the past two years the Japanese have bought up large real-estate holdings in order to control more votes. Three weeks ago they announced they would run five instead of the usual two Japanese candidates. They hoped to marshal enough votes to oust three British Councilmen, elect the three extra Japanese. If they could get them elected, and then coerce the five Chinese Councilmen, Japan could put the final squeeze on foreign business in China...