Word: electives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hungary, Realmleader Hitler himself attended to Lithuania last week. This new Republic seized Memel from beaten Germany after the War. The old frontier between Tsarist Russia and Kaiserish Germany ran along the edge of Memel through what is now Lithuania. Last week the 80,000 Memelanders were to elect 29 Deputies to the pigmy Parliament of their minuscule semi-autonomous Territory. Nothing was at stake except German prestige, for Adolf Hitler had resolved that the 1932 Memel election record in which about 80% of the votes went to German candidates must be bettered. In his recent Nazi Convention speech...
...vestry scrutinized the qualifications of 60 Episcopal ministers in 16 states. Finally, last August, the vestry issued its call-to a young man who is an enrolled Socialist, a vice president of Consumers' Research, an executive in the Church League for Industrial Democracy. Trinity's rector-elect was once arrested with Norman Thomas for unlawful assemblage at a Paterson, N. J. silk strike. His most notable exploit in eleven years as assistant rector of a Brooklyn church was to lose the parish its richest member, onetime President Matthew Scott Sloan of Brooklyn Edison Co. who objected...
...typhoon which howled over Luzon two days before was still making bad weather. But the chief reason that comparatively few Filipinos went to the polls last week to elect the first President of their Commonwealth was that the result seemed already in the bag. For Bishop Gregorio Aglipay, leader-founder of the Independent Catholic Church of the Philippines, and for General Emilio Aguinaldo, who has always felt the U. S. double-crossed him after he helped wrest the islands from Spain in 1898. a combination of Communists. Sakdalistas and miscellaneous advocates of immediate independence cast less than 250.000 votes. Twice...
...wouldn't have it!" Said Publisher Bernarr Adolphus MacFadden (Physical Culture, True Stories, True Romances}: "If the nomination should come to me, it is an honor no American could afford to refuse. . . ." Said General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler: "Give me $5,000,000 and I'll elect a Chinaman President...
...students are required to attend the first meetings of their courses. An asterisk after the number of the course indicates that undergraduates must get the written consent of the instructor in order to elect...