Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Exiles are a group of 24 Harlem businessmen who play for relaxation, occasionally travel to Boston, Newark and Philadelphia to engage other amateur clubs. The Camerons keep open house for the cricket elect at their place of business. Photographs of noted players cover the walls; on display is the Trinidad trophy cup; in a billiard room are kept the wickets, bats and balls; there or in the yard at the rear, the Royal Exiles foregather to practice batting strokes and exchange the news of the cricket world...
...slogan has been jobs for the young and security for the old [a guarded endorsement of the Townsend plan helped elect him in 1938] . . . but I'll be damned if I'm going to assure young people about jobs and the old about security when the Government can't provide them...
...overstuffed gentlemen's clubs on Boston's near-sacred Beacon Hill. But what political power they still possess comes strictly from Yankee trader ingenuity. Thus, by enactment of the conservative state legislature, Boston cannot choose its own police chief-the governor picks him. And bluebloods.cannot elect a mayor in Boston, so they pack behind the Irishman most agreeable to them (like present Mayor Maurice Tobin...
...nation's most industrious candidate for Vice President last week ingeniously saved himself considerable wear, tear and carfare. As part of his campaign to re-elect himself and resuscitate the New Deal, Vice President Wallace had engaged to deliver a speech at the American Business Congress in New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. But few Wallace votes are to be found on Peacock Alley. How reach the rural hearthsides...
...This smells like the prewar Congress that voted down all military appropriations and heralded the President as a warmonger. . . . After this thing is over we will elect a Congress that won't give our kids the same raw deal...