Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lapham people charged that Budde was only the front for politicians who want to enthrone their own man. Who is he? Hardly anyone knows. He is someone the city's supervisors would elect if Lapham is fired. He is the Faceless...
...Ecuador elected a Constituent Assembly and swung right. Socialists and Liberals boycotted the election, but the Conservatives would probably have won anyway. The new constitution was expected to back clerical schooling and keep the Indian in his semifeudal place, but not to sacrifice recent social and economic gains by city workers. The assembly would also choose the next Ecuadorean President. It was an even-money bet that they would not re-elect the erratic incumbent, Dr. José Maria Velasco Ibarra...
...Hanrahan will probably be confirmed by the Senate after a fight in committee. It will then be up to the five-man SEC to elect a chairman. Wall Streeters guessed that the job would go to James J. Caffrey, who has been with the SEC since 1936, has been a commissioner for 14 months...
...February with an initial run of 600,000 copies. (He estimates that the magazine can break even on a circulation of 450,000.) The planning board has already chosen a title, but is keeping it a secret from all but nine of the 212 bosses. The writers and artists elect a board of directors (Hersey is president) which can turn Ellison or any other editor out, if they don't like what he is doing with their money and their work. The editor promises to "grant every man his right to be heard and seen, asking only that...
Last week Morínigo, no striking apostle of liberty, promised that Paraguay, the only nation in the Hemisphere without a parliament, would elect one within the year. He also promised that political parties-perhaps even his enemies, the Liberals-might organize. Press restrictions also would be relaxed, to a degree. Already concentration camps were on the decline...