Word: elective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smooth, deep-voiced Negro, Johnson settled back on the witness stand and be gan to tell a federal jury in San Francisco how he had heard Bridges address a Communist National Committee meeting in 1936, how he recalled voting to "re-elect" Bridges to the national committee two years later under the alias of "Rossi." Attempting to discredit the testimony, Defense Attorney James M. MacInnis got the witness to admit he had never seen Harry Bridges at a national committee meeting after...
President-elect Elmer Henderson sounded the war cry: "Let's face our battle of Armageddon . . . No other profession, in . . . this country, has been brought under such violent attack by those ambitious for political power over...
Frederic D. Houghteling: Student Council, Delegate to N.S.A., N.S.A. Regional Treasurer and National Executive Secretary-elect, Liberal Union president, S.D.A. National Board, Student Federalists Nat'l Board Debate Council, Democratic Club, American Veterans' Committee...
...willing to bet practically anything that TIME will elect either Roosevelt or Churchill as Man of the Half-Century. Yet surely the scientific discoveries of Albert Einstein have had a much more far-reaching effect...
...protect himself, Saadi thought up a quick, slick deal. He assembled his legislature, submitted his resignation as governor, then had the deputies re-elect him to his old job in the Senate. But President Perón was quicker. He intervened (i.e., dismissed the governor and legislature) in Catamarca and dated the intervention back 24 hours, thus nullifying Saadi's maneuvers...