Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one issue was at stake when some 2,000,000 button-eyed Filipinos went to the polls last week to elect a President: By how big a majority would they return frail, dapper little Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina to office...
...Someone, probably a Senator, was speaking. The old familiar, rhetorical phrases filtered through the steady drum of water against stone: "We the people must . . . not in our memory nor in . . . as the greatest nation . . . proud, triumphant and free . . ." Behind the speaker Vag saw the pudgy figure of the President-elect. The astounding victory of that demagogue had swept the war administration out of office and led a famous commentator to observe that America as usual was donning the ostrich feathers after playing the part of a lion...
...other anti-Plan E faction, headed by Mickey Sullivan, used a different angle. Instead of directly opposing the council plan, they pooled their forces to elect their own councilmen, in opposition to the eleven candidates which the Plan E committee had endorsed...
...Freshmen travel to Andover, where they will attempt to repeat their 5-0 triumph over Nicholls Junior College. On the return trip, the Yardlings will elect a captain...
Ahead of them, the Freshmen face a difficult campaign of six games. This Saturday they travel to Andover and the following weekend to Exeter. On the bus returning from the Andover contest, the squad will elect a captain...