Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ordered masters of vessels to lock up all cameras while passing through the Panama Canal; entertained as overnight guests Dr. Rafael A. Calderon Guardia, President-elect of Costa Rica, and his wife. Declared President-elect Guardia: the defense of the Canal is Costa Rica's vital interest, for which she is ready to take any measure...
...Disgruntled exhibitors have long panned the Chicago local show because teachers at the Institute's art school sat on the jury, gave the prizes to their pupils. This year Institute Director Daniel Catton Rich sent out ballots to 1,091 eligible artists and asked them to elect their own jury. The results seemed about the same. "Dull mediocrity," said Critic Clarence Joseph Bulliet of the Chicago Daily News. Top prize, the Logan Medal and $500, went to Lawrence Adams for his bright, thinly painted West Side in Winter...
...been patrolled by slovenly, bullyish Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen known as the Ta Tao Boys (for the puppet Ta Tao Government), who are quick and careless at the trigger. Japanese assassins working for the Wang Ching -wei Peace and Reconstruction Movement use the Badlands for their base; and Puppet-elect Wang's own fortified hideout is within a dice-throw of the most notorious opium and gambling joint in the whole area. No day goes by without at least one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that...
...debts, but some good things too: a network of badly needed, Long-built roads, the towering 33-story Capitol, free bridges where there had been toll bridges and ferries, free textbooks, the magnificent physical plant of the University. And one part of Huey Long's inheritance unemotional Governor-elect Sam Jones was never likely to invade: the folklore that Long inspired, the tales of his Kingfish cleverness and rascality gleefully repeated in country stores and country cabins, the vague, contradictory feeling that he somehow stood for the poor man ("Every man a king") that brought crowds out to hear...
...said Army spokesmen, than an old Chinese custom-after an overwhelming victory, offer the beaten enemy merciful terms. But the Army could not deny that it had failed to send similar telegrams after its victories at Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow. Three days after the newly assembled straw army of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei was reported in revolt, Premier Yonai assured the Diet that the forthcoming installation of Puppet Wang would be the first step toward peace...