Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princeton's captain elect George Lawry, and Cornell's Hillary Chollot were elected forwards on the second quintet, while to the guard posts were voted Columbia's diminutive set-shot artist Sherry Marshall, and Dartmouth captain Chip Coleman...
...should we recognize the Communist Party in the United States?" he demanded. "Why should they be able to elect people to public office? ... I think that Communists should be excluded from participation in any kind of public activity, including the right to run for public office, a right to occupy positions in the Chamber of Commerce, or labor unions, or any other organizations...
...newspaper editor, his masthead motto had been: "Independent in all things, neutral in none." When he became acting governor in 1943 (the governor-elect died before taking office), Wisconsin politicians learned that he hadn't changed. The self-styled "tough old codger" tackled every sacred cow and pressure group, from the American Legion to organized labor. He cracked down on lobbyists, gamblers, and battled the highway lobby...
...wrote not much better, though his father and grandfather before him were editors. He was 33 when, in 1921, Father Henry C. became Harding's Secretary of Agriculture and made Henry A. the editor of the influential Wallaces' Farmer. He was 44 when he met President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt at Hyde Park, used the language of the Brain Trusters so patly that F.D.R., to Wallace's surprise, made him his Secretary of Agriculture six months later...
...night of Jan. 14, when Georgia's legislature met to elect a successor to Governor Gene Talmadge, son Herman's chances were slim. In the first count of write-in ballots, he was running third among the contenders, and the new governor was to be chosen from the top two. Then, suddenly, 58 new votes-all from Talmadge's home county of Telfair-put Hummon back into the running. Ever since then, thoughtful Georgians have been wondering about those 58 votes. Last week they found out. After a month of cloak-&-dagger sleuthing, the Atlanta Journal splashed...