Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a Negro serviceman returning in anger to Harlem, there to spread dissatisfaction. Often the returned Negro soldier was angry at segregation in Army camps, at the Navy's unabashed racial snobbishness, at the Negro's "token" representation on the fighting fronts. The Negroes who helped elect a Republican Governor last November in Kentucky, and now had voted Republican in Harlem, had taken their protests to the polls...
...Glorified Messenger Boy." He graduated to the Senate in 1926, was re-elected in the Roosevelt landslide of 1932. The next year, when Democrats reorganized the Senate, Alben Barkley became assistant to powerful, stocky Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson. In 1937, at the peak of the bitter, party-splitting fight over the President's Supreme Court-packing bill, Joe Robinson died. Senate Democrats got ready to elect Mississippi's popular Pat Harrison to the leadership. But Franklin Roosevelt wanted a majority leader of his own choosing. In days of the hottest kind of politicking, when New Dealers were...
...Tree last night, the Harvard Dramatic Club, met to re-elect administrative officers for the coming trimester, as well as to choose a new four-man executive board. The HDC had picked 12 new members at an earlier meeting...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, acting as leader of Britain's Conservative Party, made a blunder. Irked by the Tory defeat at Skipton (TIME, Jan. 24), he took a strong stand against Independent Bruce Dutton Briant, who had dared to oppose a Conservative Coalitionist in a Parliamentary by-election at Brighton. Said Churchill in a letter to Brighton voters: Briant's claim of supporting the Prime Minister, while running as an Independent, was a "swindle." Resentful Brightonians did not elect Briant, a local barrister, but they did give him enough votes to give the Conservatives a scare...
...noon, dapper, coal-black President-elect William Vacarat Shadrach Tubman took over from President Roosevelt's onetime host and guest, Edwin J. Barclay (TIME, June 7). Then the new President knelt to ask the blessing of God upon his people. His lazy drawl poured out over the multitude, reminding all that Liberia had been founded under God and on Christian principles...