Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continually and noisily nagged Congress for immediate nationwide prohibition. But another group, shrewdly piloted by the politically seasoned Anti-Saloon League and the potent Methodist Board of Temperance, prefers to work quietly and without publicity in a campaign to dry up individual counties through local-option laws and gradually elect Congressmen favorable to their cause. Many of the nation's 100-odd dry organizations energetically employ both techniques...
Definite Dean. Brown-eyed, greying Bishop-elect Dun was baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church, thinks he went to Sunday school about twice. At Yale, under the influence of Historian Henry
...will preserve the peace by keeping a preponderant air force in being to supplement the work of the British Navy. As for Europe, he does not despair of federalizing it after the war is over. He would have the European federal units accept a common Bill of Rights, and elect members of a European House of Representatives on a population basis. The European Senate would consist of the prime ministers and foreign ministers of the various countries. Together the two Houses of Parliament would elect a federal executive of seven members, each of whom would be in charge...
...their freedom in 1941, after British and Fighting French ousted a Vichyite administration in Lebanon and the neighboring French Mandate of Syria. U.S. diplomacy and Atlantic Charter propaganda had encouraged the aspirations of some 35,000,000 Arabs in the Middle East. Last September the Lebanese were allowed to elect an ardently nationalist government. Last week their Parliament voted, in effect, to end the mandate, take over full control from French colonial officials. Sensitive Gaullists, feeling their oats and smarting under unsatisfactory relations with Britain and the U.S., cried "plot,", saw the beginning of peril for their empire...
Under the Connally-Smith-Harness act, Hillman cannot give any C.I.O. money to party campaign chests. But he can spend what he likes-with an eye to the Hatch Act limitation of $3,000,000 for any one committee in any one campaign-in his own private efforts to elect candidates who look good to C.I.O. As a founder of New York's American Labor Party, which delivered 300,000 votes to Roosevelt in 1936 and 417,000 in 1940, he knows the business on a small scale. He has a rich field to work in: besides C.I.O...