Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Joshua Bryan Lee, ex-professor of oratory, adopted his middle name in deference to his own silver tongue. He clung noisily to New Deal coattails, handed out lavish patronage to the "Rover Boys" who helped elect him in 1936, found spare time to work for Prohibition (TIME, Nov. 2). Last week Josh Lee was so shocked that he holed up at his hotel for two days before facing newsmen...
Oklahoma Republicans had beaten him with wealthy Oilman Edward H. Moore, had thus elected their first Senator since 1924 and their third since Oklahoma became a State in 1907. Senator-Elect Moore, 71, is a onetime farm boy who worked his way through Chillicothe Normal as a janitor, taught rural schools, drove his horse nine miles to study law in Kansas City at night, finally struck it rich with a $2,000,000 Oklahoma oilfield...
George Norris was speaking from a desk piled high with letters, telegrams which said what a crying shame it was that Nebraska had seen fit to unseat Independent Norris, elect instead genial, energetic Kenneth Wherry, 50, an anti-New Deal Republican ("but no obstructionist...
Separate fires broke out in Dorothy Thompson's home in Manhattan, and in Governor-Elect Thomas E. Dewey's home in Pawling, N.Y. The columnist's fire started in a secret washroom (its door a swinging bookcase), burned up 600 books, smoked her out for the night. The Governor-elect's fire spread from a defective flue in the fireplace; firemen chopped a hole in the side of the house...
...Class of 1944 will go to the polls today and tomorrow to elect eight Class officers out of a field of 33 nominees. Six names have been added by petition since the original nominations were made...