Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME for its item, "Two Governors," in the Jan. 7 issue. However, the comments are misleading. Almost any recent Governor of North Carolina might have done the same thing Governor Cherry did in commuting the sentence of a 14-year-old Negro boy from death to life imprisonment. We elect that kind of Governor. Tolerance, decency and humaneness are not so rare in North Carolina as TIME intimates...
Political prophets in gay, gambling New Orleans always said the Independent Democrats would never elect a mayor until it snowed on election day. Last week, on election day, snow sifted over startled voters and Independent deLesseps Story Morrison beat Mayor Robert Sidney Maestri, the last office-holding henchman of the late Huey ("Lion in the Street") Long...
This week, as Somoza's Cabinet resigned, Nicaraguans demonstrated against him, hoped to rid the country of him. Tough, cocky Dictator Somoza had been talking about withdrawing his candidacy for next November's presidential elections. His plan: elect a stooge, run the country as commandant of the National Guard, thus keep some 51 cattle ranches, 46 coffee haciendas and other trophies of his years in office...
...Curley's conviction would not stop him from being Massachusetts' most agile and successful politician. He had once been jailed for violation of the Civil Service Act, had once been forced to pay back $42,629 he had taken as graft from the city which loves to elect him. Now he faced a possible prison sentence. But there was nothing in the law-or Boston's political morals-to prevent his continuing as Mayor. If necessary, the "greatest figure" could run the city from jail...
Draws & Jams. Russia lost again in an effort to postpone the struggle for seats in the all-important Security Council, but with a little luck fared better in the voting. Elected for two years were Australia, Brazil and Poland; for one year, The Netherlands, Egypt and Mexico. Poland, a Soviet candidate, tied with The Netherlands in the voting for a two-year seat, won it in a drawing. Russia helped defeat Canada and elect Australia...