Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cabinet unanimously accepted his plan for achieving a Fourth Republic. The plan: the French electorate, men & women, would go to the polls next October and decide whether they wish to retain France's old constitution of 1875 or have a new one. At the same time they would elect a unicameral assembly of 600 representatives...
This evening I called the people of this little town together to elect a new mayor. . . . Since I speak German fluently, I opened the meeting, and . . . Herr , owner of the local inn, took over and read a previously made-up list of names for the posts of mayor, assistant mayor, town clerk, treasurer, and town crier. He asked anybody who had any objections to raise his hand...
...stipulations . . . cannot be considered . . . fulfilled until ... the Argentine people have received the opportunity to elect a government of their choice. Until this has been done it may be expected that relations between the United States and Argentina will never be cordial, however correct they...
...preferred to cross the Commons floor to the opposition benches. The government which had brought Britain through the war frorn the dark days of Dunkirk to the Nazi surrender at Reims, had become past history. Their future government was up to the British voters, who will elect it next July...
Last week Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president-elect of Manhattan's Union
Theological Seminary, cited this and other solid evidence to show that
foreign missions are "in some respects the most amazing achievement of
Christianity in all its history." The evidence is in his new book, They
Found the Church There (Scribner; $1.75). Chiefly it is a collection of
personal stories and testimonies by scores of servicemen.