Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confident that this committee will organize a successful jubilee and put out a fine Redbook," commented Arthur C. McGill '48, student council adviser to the committee. He pointed out that the committee will elect its own chairman and will appoint additional members from winter entrants of the Class of 1949 in the near future...
...American Labor Party's busy doorbell ringers were not quite enough to elect their beloved Commentator Johannes Steel (TIME, Feb. 18) to Congress. Candidate Steel, endorsed by Fiorello LaGuardia, Henry Wallace and the Communist Daily Worker, lost to Democratic wheel horse Arthur G. Klein by 4,000 votes...
Michigan's Political Action Committee, which helped elect Franklin Roosevelt in 1944, came close to an open break with the White House. Beefy R. J. Thomas, PACster and president of the C.I.O. Auto Workers, cried: "Truman is a weak and small-time politician. . . . We can't say definitely that we will not support Truman. We certainly don't want to if a better man appears...
...glorious pasts and no futures." There, amid marble busts of bygone Academicians, they heard an earnest harangue from "Perpetual Secretary" Georges Duhamel. In its past the Academy had spurned Molière, Daudet, Balzac, Zola, many another great nonconformist; why not, demanded Novelist Duhamel, seize this magnificent occasion to elect such latter-day greats as Louis Aragon, Roger Martin du Gard, André Gide, André Malraux, Paul Claudel...
Died. Dr. Julio Prestes de Albuquerque, 63, president-elect (in 1930) of Brazil who was driven into exile (in France and Portugal) by the Vargas revolution; in Sao Paulo, whither he had lately returned...