Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...custom, the vanquished leaders, Fitzgerald and Curley, met Ely to congratulate him on a public platform in Worcester. When it came time for Curley to speak, he rose and presented Ely with a check for $1000 --"to show my sincerity in the effort to elect Mr. Ely." The press the next day went wild, praising Curley for his magnanimity; but Mr. Ely was less enthused. The check had been made payable to the Boston City Committee --to be used by the mayor and not by Mr. Ely for getting out the Boston vote...
...most interesting thing about the whole student movement is that so large a group as this should revolt against the general tenor of student apathy and put on such a determined effort to elect any single candidate. And the headquarters on Washington Street is an active place showing the signs of a political group that means to win; most of the previous student organizations in city polities have been relatively listless...
There is no truth to the rumor, circulated by the Conservatives, that Norway is getting tired of Socialism; there is plenty of proof that she is thoroughly tired of Communists. Norwegians went to the polls last week to elect a new Parliament, and decisively gave both proofs...
...Tucker Corp., some of whose officers are under indictment in Chicago (TIME, June 20). Also nominated to the commission to succeed Robert K. McConnaughey, who resigned last summer, was Washington Lawyer Donald C. Cook, 40, onetime SEC staffer, longtime Department of Justice aide. Later, the five-man commission will elect as chairman one of the three Democrats - McCormick, Cook, or Commissioner Paul Rowen...
Yale emphasizes freedom and initiative, Sturges said. "We would prefer students to do individual honors work in their second year. All seniors must do at least two units of it." Unlike Harvard and most law schools, he added, Yale allows its students to elect their own courses of study, except in the first term...