Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minnesota Senator. It was about this time that he met a county attorney named Harold Stassen. Ball liked Stassen's views. They were two intellectual explorers in Midwest Minnesota and Joe helped elect Harold governor. So in 1940, when Minnesota's U.S. Senator Ernest Lundeen was killed in an airplane crash, the nation's youngest governor (Stassen was then 33) filled the vacancy with Joe Ball, who at 34 became the nation's youngest Senator...
...indicated to unify successive Freshman efforts. The most logical source of such a directive element would be the trained staff from the previous year. Unfortunately, most ex-Red Book editors generally require the College years of post-officialdom to recover from neurosis. But if the outgoing men could elect one of their number as Red Book overseer for the following year, some practical instructions from above could be added to the current paternal and distant solicitude...
...faith of ascetic, heretic-burning John Calvin was stern, hard and alien to a boisterous young country in a nature-taming age. Calvinism insisted on 1) the total depravity of man, 2) a God who, for His own good reasons, irrevocably divided all mankind into the Elect and the Damned, 3) strict "blue laws...
...than two terms of office. But regarded from both the theoretical and the practical angle, the dangers, inherent in the passage of this measure take sudden and disturbing shape. Many students of government and political theory question the element of democracy involved in telling the people. "You can't elect this man of your highest office, even though most of you want him there, because he has served long enough now." This restriction placed on the electorate in periods of crisis, when certain experienced leadership is required, should make the lawmakers think twice before nodding their collective heads in obedient...
...Because Council work requires a good deal of time, it is important to elect men already not too embroiled in outside activities," said Campbell after Axt had outlined the student government's work of the past year...