Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Secrets. There was much coming & going. Vice President-elect Alben Barkley departed after spending almost a week. No President and Vice President, said Harry Truman, ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
...hostess to the Vice President-elect was filled. Possibly spurred on by applications from eager ladies ("I didn't know whether they wanted to marry me or hire out to me"), Alben Berkley named his daughter, Mrs. Max Truitt...
...President-elect Sterling prepared to move in, Stanford's Acting President Alvin C. Eurich made plans to move on. Last week he became first president of New York's State University, which exists only on paper. After next March the job will make him top man on the campuses of 32 state colleges and institutes, which will have local administrators but be controlled from Albany. A former professor of education, Psychologist Eurich likes to think up tests. His best known one, which he and Elmo C. Wilson devised: TIME'S Current Affairs Test...
...backfield includes Gene Rossides and Lou Kusserow, Columbia's Goal Dust Twins, Levi Jackson, Yale captain-elect, and George Sella of Princeton...
...Class of 1951 will elect the first sophomore class committee in College history, the Student Council announced last night, as it released a preliminary list of nominations...