Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left was the seasoned Chilean Federation of Labor, 300,000 strong, bulwark alike of Communists and Socialists who had helped elect Rios...
...cardinal-elect might not travel to Rome: Johannes de Jong of Utrecht, Holland's first cardinal since the Reformation, whose physician decided he had not yet recovered from a recent motor accident. His red hat would be brought to him by a papal legate...
Franklin Roosevelt took him along to Washington, made him WPAdministrator, finally boss of all Federal relief spending. He would be remembered for WPA's boondoggling, for its lasting achievements (WPA guides, etc.), and for his political cynicism ("We will spend and spend, tax and tax, elect and elect...
Would most Poles agree with her? Stenia shrugged. "Most Poles are peasants. We will see when the elections come. But if they elect any reactionaries, any fascists. . . ." She scowled...
...Mexico, there is a legend that Miguel Alemán wins by the hand of death. He got into congress when the man for whom he was an alternate died. In 1936, he stepped into the governorship of his native Vera Cruz when the governor-elect was assassinated. His chance for the presidency opened last year when death came to Maximino, brother of President Manuel Avila Camacho, and Alemán's chief political enemy...