Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearby Lynchburg the sod was fresh on the grave of William G. Suhling, former captain-elect of Virginia's football team, Marine volunteer killed in California flight training. Also dead were former football captains John Acree (killed in Pacific naval action), Lewis G. Reiss (killed in Army flight training), 57 other fighting alumni...
...Politics Firster Vandenberg quit placing his party ahead of his country. A lot of us citizens will cheerfully vote for a fourth term, thank you, rather than elect a glamorous general who has shown neither taste nor talent for the Presidency...
President Barclay and President-elect W. V. S. Tubman were in America to return the visit paid by President Roosevelt when he stopped in Liberia, to inspect U.S. troops on his trip back from Casablanca. Not since Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to stay for lunch in 1901 had a Negro been a guest at the White House. Last week the Liberian President and President-elect became the first ever to spend the night there. Southern Congressmen shuddered-what would their people think...
...outskirts of Pittsburgh, scattered among three Congressional districts, are labor votes which in 1940 were sufficient to elect Democratic Congressmen from all three districts. Fortnight ago, Governor Edward Martin signed a bill, passed by the legislature after an eight-day Democratic filibuster, which neatly amputated these Democratic areas, added them superfluously to the safely Democratic Pittsburgh district. A similar operation was performed on two Philadelphia districts...
Fisher, a tackle on the 1942 grid team, was the only Harvard entrant to figure in the scoring. He was defeated in only one dual meet this spring. Tim Cogges-hall and Captain-elect Tom Holyoke failed to place...