Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention should . . . nominate me for the Presidency, I shall accept. If the people elect me, I will serve...
Much as he wanted to retire, the President had written, "If the Convention should . . . nominate me for the Presidency, I shall accept. If the people elect me, I will serve. . . ." And, Mr. Roosevelt told Mr. Hannegan, he would not "run" in the ordinary political sense, "but if the people command me to continue in this office and in this war, I have as little right to withdraw as the soldier has to leave his post in the line...
Once a friendly headman introduced her: "This woman thinks like a man. In the days of Queen Victoria we were free. Perhaps if we elect a woman we shall get some of our freedom back again...
...156th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,000,000 communicants) met in Chicago's neo-Gothic Fourth Presbyterian Church. To a jampacked audience assembled to elect his successor, lean, ascetic-looking, scholarly Henry Sloane Coffin finished his term as moderator with a slam-bang speech...
Stockholders of Brewster Aeronautical Corp. met last week to go through a wearisomely familiar routine: elect a new management, its seventh in three years. Ship builder Henry J. Kaiser, his job done (to get Brewster finally into production), was leaving. He gave out the cheerful news that Brewster, after two years of losses, was finally making money. But he warned that this might not last, that the Navy might end its contract for Corsair fighters, the only contract Brewster held...