Word: elective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eric Hansen, Executive Secretary of the CCA, declared that the CCA would win a majority in both the School Committee and the Council, and thereby be able to elect a mayor. He commented "Two years ago 35 votes would have elected us another Council member. We'll get more than that this time. We'll also win both Referenda, but we'll have a close fight." In recent elections, however, the CCA has not attained a majority in either body...
...rainy afternoon skies hovered in leaden gloom above the modernistic A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters building on Washington's 16th Street. James Riddle Hoffa, president-elect of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, scissored briskly up to the front entrance. A photographer asked him for just "one cheerful smile." Snapped Jimmy Hoffa cheerlessly: "Don't worry, kid. There'll be lots of them. Nothing has happened...
...office. Even opponents have conceded that suave, handsome Yulo is "a clean drop of water in a pail of dirty Liberal mud." Both are profoundly pro-American, but Yulo emphasizes his business experience as equipping him best to deal with the nation's teetering economy. "If you elect me, I promise to treat you as kindly as I do the laborers on my estate," he told one audience...
...born in June, 1945, during the fight for Plan E government in Cambridge, feels that PR is very nearly a matter of life and death. Under PR, the normally outvoted wards around Harvard Square have a chance to elect representatives of their own. If PR were repealed and a city-wide plurality election put in its stead, it is doubtful that the so-called "better elements" of Cambridge could have a voice in city administration. The CCA has in the past been composed mainly of these better elements--to Harvard students, the intelligentsia of the community...
NORLUTIN (Parke, Davis & Co.'s trade name for 19-nor-alpha-ethyniltestosterone) postpones menstruation "for as long as the physician may elect," reported gynecologists from the Medical College of Georgia. Such postponement is justified, they said, if a woman is made physically or emotionally ill by menstruation, and at specific times such as marriage, family crisis, sports competitions...