Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Governor, Darden had proposed tougher University admission standards; a curb on the "expensive, restricted and ingrown" fraternity houses; new, million-dollar dormitories and a cafeteria, to put a Charlottesville education within reach of many more "rank & file" Virginians. Last week President-Elect Darden held a three-hour peace talk with student leaders, to convince them that he was not proposing a fate worse than death. He assured them that he would not let Virginia's traditions get lost in his bigger & better University...
Hauptfuhrer, second-string end last fall and captain-elect of the 1947-48 basketball team, will use the springy legs that netted him so many tap-ins during the winter season to snag points for the Crimson in the high jump...
...chairman for the committee has not yet been chosen, but the Student Council will elect a member of the committee to that position before the end of the week. Tickets will probably go on sale in the latter part of next week...
Calm & Slow. In ruling Hummon out, the court had pooh-poohed his contention that it had no jurisdiction in the case. Georgia law, said the court, states plainly that the legislature may elect a governor only when no candidate has a majority. Gene Talmadge and Thompson, elected with him as lieutenant governor,. had had majorities in the November election. Thus, said the court, the legislature had had no legal grounds for electing Hummon, and Thompson, the ex-schoolteacher son of a tenant farmer, had every legal right to the governorship...
Said Tsaldaris: "If by regular democratic methods and arguments the Greek people want to elect Communists to the majority . . . the Communists are welcome to it. The Communists in France, Italy and Belgium have won considerable power and influence through normal participation in the political life of their countries. Why can't Greek Communists do the same...