Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What do they think we're here for? We are here to win the right to read what we wish, elect whom we wish, and to listen to political harangues if we wish. If we're to have those rights when the war ends-and we'd better-why can't we have them...
...would like to take that idea to the peace conference. Before he can do so, he must persuade the Canadian people to re-elect him and his Party in an election that must be held before June...
Cuba's election of June 1, which was encouragingly open & aboveboard, almost resulted in a military dictatorship. The news came out last week. Two nights after frail, professorial Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin was elected President, his Vice President-elect Dr. Raúl de Cardenas* trotted nervously across a shadowy lawn where U.S. Ambassador Spruille Braden was dining with friends. Drawing the Ambassador aside, he spluttered that rough, tough General Manuel Benitez, Chief of the National Police, planned to seize President Fulgencio Batista, prevent Grau from assuming the Presidency by setting up a military dictatorship...
...Latin Americans, who felt that their underdeveloped countries should receive loans rather than make them, wanted to make only nominal subscriptions to the Bank. But under the leadership of able young Luis Machado (personal representative of Cuba's President-elect Grau) they finally boosted their subscription to 70% of the amount asked...
...Primer continues: "To the average American, politicians are crooks. . . . The truth is that politicians are no more corrupt than the people who elect them. The people corrupt the politicians. . . . Let's quit blaming the politicians and face the responsibility of full citizenship. . . . Let's become politicians ourselves...