Word: electives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain-elect Green will flank Healey, while Daughters will stand next to Booth. Give Daughters the pass-catching edge and Green the blocking edge; both are heady defensive players. Win Jameson, another veteran wing, should prove one capable relief; the other remains in doubt...
...early 30's, the Boss of Mexico was pudgy, greasy, General Plutarco Elias Calles-part of the time as President, part of the time as boss of Presidents. After having bossed several stooge Presidents, General Calles in 1934 ordered the National Revolutionary Party machine to elect General Cárdenas. It did, with a big majority, and no difficulty...
...forces that are opposing dictatorship and fascism. We must do our utmost to make unity the keynote of our present convention." The rest of the 500 delegates proceeded to support Chicago's resolutions, condemn the Kelly-Nash machine's "interference" with Chicago's schools, elect two Chicagoans to the executive council. They also watered down a resolution on the Spanish war, contented themselves with asking the U. S. to end the arms embargo against the Loyalists...
McAdoo's real political career began when he met Woodrow Wilson in the Princeton, N. J. railroad station in 1910, was so impressed that he helped elect Wilson Governor of New Jersey. Two years later he helped elect him President. He was the New Freedom's Secretary of the Treasury until after the Armistice. "To make it a people's Treasury rather than a bankers' Treasury," McAdoo made national banks pay 2 % interest on Government deposits, helped Carter Glass push through the Federal Reserve Act. The War saw McAdoo's zenith as a public servant...
...host of Third Termites busily boring in the frame of U. S. politics was last week added the biggest & best to date, no less a personage than Democratic National Chairman James Aloysius Farley. At Mackinac Island, where he went to exhort Michigan Democrats to elect Rooseveltians to Congress, he was asked about his own Presidential ambitions for 1940. Bluntly Jim Farley replied...