Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chaplain (col.) William D. Cleary. a Catholie priest of the Brooklyn Diocese in New York and former comma ndant at Fr. Benjamin Harrison, will take charge of the training and will be assisted by Chaplin (Lt. Col.) Herman R. Page, of Dayton, Ohie, Bishop-Elect of the Episco pal Dlocese of Northern Michigan, and graduate of Harvard, Class...
Poverty-struck and overpopulated Puerto Rico, stepchild among U.S. territories, was chosen as the first backyard for experimental freedom. Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell proposed that Puerto Ricans be given the right to elect their own governor. Franklin Roosevelt quickly stepped up to announce that he liked the idea. If Congress changes the Organic Act of 1917, self-government will go into effect in Puerto Rico in 1944 or as soon thereafter as the war ends...
...Once the enemy is driven from their land, all French men and women will elect a national assembly, which will decide what course the future of the country shall take...
...strategy was plain: nominate Dewey, elect Dewey, have a tailor-made Old Guard candidate established for 1944. But to a big group of Republicans who distrust Dewey, it would be very bad medicine to ride to victory on the tails of a man whom they regard as a mere political opportunist. They are far from sure that it would be a ride to victory. Many of them think it would be worse for their party to ride to victory with a group whom they regard as reactionary...
...addition to Talcott, Yale's Ted Harrison was named to pitch on the first team. The infield consists of Pennsylvania's slugging first baseman, Art McQuillen, who is now playing pro ball; Captain-elect Bart Harvey, of Harvard, the league's leading base stealer, at second; Stan Zarod, Dartmouth third baseman and the only sophomore to make the first team; and Bob Perins, rangy Princetonian, rounding out the inner defense at short...