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Word: elective (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farley is one of the greatest men in this country and one way to break down a lot of false ideas among narrow-minded religious bigots would be to elect him President of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...boxes of homemade fudge wrapped in red, white & blue by the Pelahatchee, Miss, postmistress. Six Governors (Kentucky's Keen Johnson, Georgia's Eurith D. Rivers, Mississippi's Paul Johnson, Tennessee's Prentice Cooper, Missouri's Lloyd Stark, Indiana's Clifford Townsend), one Governor-elect (Louisiana's Sam Jones) and four Texas ex-Governors (Pat Neff, Dan Moody, William Hobby and Jim Ferguson) greeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Farley Takes a Trip | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Franny Simpson, basketball captain-elect, was operated on for appendicitis during Easter vacation and is convalescing at his home in Oak Park, Illinois. He is expected back at school very soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Simpson Back Soon | 4/16/1940 | See Source »

...rdenas' grip on the country is still strong. Mexico's political and economic unrest is heightened by the fact that after nearly six years of revolutionary social experimentation Lázaro Cárdenas must let go. On July 7, according to the Constitution, Mexico must elect a new President. And there is no man like Cárdenas to succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Cool Water on Oil | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...into their pockets dig these three for many of the museum's top-flight special exhibitions. Even more significant is a growing list of "my young men" who now head important U. S. museums and got their first museum training under Kimball at Philadelphia. Some of them: Director-elect Francis Taylor of the Metropolitan, the Brooklyn Museum's Lauranee Roberts. Richard Foster Howard at the Dallas Museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Philadelphia's Museum | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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