Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legion's own politicking was as cut-&-dried as before World War II. No revolt of young veterans materialized to balk the "kingmakers" of the old guard in their efforts to elect a national commander. The kingmakers' choice for 1948 was James F. O'Neil, police chief of Manchester, N.H. (pop. 77,685), a greying, 49-year-old veteran of the Mexican Border campaign and of World War I. O'Neil, a onetime newspaperman and a Republican, also saw action in the South Pacific during World War II as a civilian assistant to John L. Sullivan...
...museum which the American School hopes to build, the diggers found a treasure which looked like a page from a history book. Thrown away and buried deep were several hundred ostraka-bits of broken pottery on which Athenian voters once wrote the names of public men they wished to elect or to exile. Among the names on exile ballots were three which still echo in history: Themistocles, Hippocrates, and Aristides...
...nearly 50 years under U.S. control, Puerto Rico has elected all its own legislators. Last week, when President Truman signed a bill passed by the 80th Congress, Puerto Rico also got the right to elect its own governor, heretofore appointed by the White House. Nov. 2, 1948, general election day in the U.S., was the date set for the island's first gubernatorial election...
Also on the speaker's platform sat about 50 of Oxfordshire's leading Tories-solid, well-fixed businessmen, country gentlemen and their ladies. Fifty or so of the lesser elect were allowed to sit on two rows of steps around the portico. Facing the platform, on the cricket green, was a roped enclosure with some 200 chairs. There sat the remainder of the party committeemen, their families, and others of the locally privileged...
Even before he was inaugurated Vice President five months ago, Uruguayans stuck the nickname "Trumancito" on Luis Batlle (pronounced Bat-zhay) Berres. It would not be long, they agreed, before he stepped into the shoes of the President-elect, old (71), frail Tomás Berreta. When Berreta flew to the U.S. to visit President Truman in February, Uruguayans wondered if it would be too much for him. When he took office in March, they wondered how long he could live. Soon he had strength enough only to conduct affairs of. state at his bedside. Last week in a Montevideo...