Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been the Lewis-appointed president of U.M.W.'s tough, bloody Illinois district, at $8,000 a year. Five months ago he threw up this sinecure, went back to the mines, and began fighting John L. on the issue of union autonomy, i.e., the right of districts to elect their own officers. (Of U.M.W.'s 31 districts, 21 are ruled by Lewis-appointed men, giving John L. near-perfect dictatorial control...
...Reed's great moments came in the historic fight over the seating of Senator-elect Truman H. Newberry in 1921. (Newberry had spent over $100,000 to buy his way into the Senate). A Senate committee had approved Newberry's seating. Outraged, Reed cried: "You say this is a thing black with infamy. Therefore we will spread it as a mantle over the Senate chamber. You say this office was sold for money. Therefore he who bought it shall be confirmed in his title." Newberry was confirmed, but promptly resigned...
...alarmed opponents had already dreamed up a series of events that might make Alessandri President of Chile. Not wishing to take precedence over an ex-President of Chile, the president of the Senate might resign. The evenly divided Senate might then elect Alessandri to take his place. Some day harried President Rios might also resign. That would give the Minister of the Interior Presidential power. But he might not feel up to bearing "The Lion of Tarapaca. "If he resigned, Alessandri, as president of the Senate, would automatically take his place. That would practically insure Alessandri's election...
Just after the 1932 Presidential election, Waldman introduced Norman Thomas, the defeated Socialist candidate, to President-elect Roosevelt. Said Roosevelt to Thomas, according to Waldman: "Well, I took 99% of your program, didn't I?" Waldman agrees that nearly all the worth-while social legislation of the New Deal was derived from early Socialist principles...
...sheet. He finds Dewey slightly ahead, among 35 of the 48 states sampled in the past six weeks. Yet to be tested: the border states (Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland); Pennsylvania, and all the crucial Northeast states but New York and Massachusetts. It takes 266 electoral votes to elect a President. The Gallup totals...