Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clearly it was one of the queerest. Item: the youngest candidate in history was running against one of the oldest. Item: for the first time, one of the candidates had already had three terms and wanted a fourth. Item: the P.A.C., the group making the biggest organized effort to elect the Democratic candidate, did not even belong to the Democratic Party. Item: the G.O.P. candidate not only didn't encourage foofaraw, bands, parades and demonstrations, but deliberately discouraged it. Item: one of the main campaign speeches was mainly remembered as being about the candidate...
Communism or Hillmanism. Said the Democrats: neither Earl Browder nor Sidney Hillman is running for the Presidency; it takes all kinds of support to elect a President. Republicans: why do Reds and pinkos like the New Deal so much then...
These words were noteworthy last week because they came from no free-enterprising businessman, but from New Dealing Harry Hopkins. Once, in the old days of "tax & tax, spend & spend, elect & elect," WPA Boss Harry Hopkins had spent over $5 billion on vast public works trying to prove that federal spending could make the U.S. economy move. But last week, in an article in the American Magazine, Spender Hopkins fervently embraced free enterprise. Skeptics might growl that this was merely a pre-election phony. But it seemed more than that...
...breakdown in negotiations meant that Cuba's President-elect, Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, must choose between sending back Batista's hagglers or appointing a new mission instructed to accept the U.S. offer. Then he would face the angry sugar-growers...
...other means of rebuilding our democracy than to consult the real ruler-the people of France. The moment that the war permits, that is to say when our territory is completely free and our prisoners and deportees return to their homes, the government will invite the nation to elect by the universal vote of every man and every woman its representatives, whose reunion will constitute the National Assembly. . . . The government will place in the hands of those mandatories the provisional powers which at the moment it assumes...