Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., with a hand from his brother Elliott, gave the Eisenhower band wagon a family push. Said young Franklin: "The most serious concern of the people of the U.S. is to elect as President ... a man who will not only have a united party behind him, but also will be capable of securing the unity of our country. . . . The American people have a right to call the General back into active public service...
...Nanking last week China's first National Assembly convened; its 3,000 members will elect the nation's President and Vice President. The occasion, which marked China's precarious transition from one-party regime to parliamentary government, was not without incident. Ten Kuomintang dissenters who were under party censure for getting themselves elected as "independents" staged a hunger strike in the gold-&-cream Assembly hall. Cunning officials placed trays of tea, cakes and dumplings before them, to no avail. The "irregulars'" spokesman bought a white coffin with black stripes, threatened to bring it into the Assembly...
...snapped. Her fellow students cheered. Then the Communist tried to get the students to make nominations to one of his "action committees." He turned down as "unreliable" several names suggested. The girl rose again. She asked: "If you are going to select the candidates, why ask us to elect someone?" That broke up the meeting...
Ager, the fencing captain-elect, was high scorer of the squad this year while performing in the epee. He first took up fencing this fall but won a position on the Crimson team with little trouble...
Ballot number 1,220 was cast last night in another futile attempt to elect a mayor for Cambridge...