Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government of a whole nation by the people speaking directly-that is, town-meeting government on a nationwide scale -was never meant to be the American form of government and never can be good government. What the American government was designed to be is representative government-government by representatives elected by the people. . . . The opportunity and obligation of the people is to elect able representatives...
...these activities were supervised by a committee of high local dignitaries-the Governor and Governor-elect of the State of Guerrero, representatives of the committee which preserves Taxco's colonial architecture, and the mayor of the city. But the honorary president of the fiesta was no Mexican. He was Taxco's First Citizen, good-looking William Philip Spratling of New Orleans, the man who brought Taxco its third period of prosperity...
...licked, but we're the only ones who are happy," chortled anti-Communist leaders.- Reason: the Convention voted to elect officers henceforth by referendum instead of at conventions and they expect the rank & file to defeat the administration in a referendum...
This plan is compared with three alternate plans at present offered in the Houses, in which the student may elect 21 meals per week for Freshman...
After 28 years, without interruption, during which Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague has dominated Jersey City, its voters last week went to the polls with another opportunity to oust him as mayor. The issue was whether they would elect Republicans who made charges of confiscatory taxes, fraudulent elections and municipal corruption, or whether they would again have Hague, who now promises to defend his constituents from the totalitarian menace. To no one's surprise they chose beaming Boss Hague-his tellers counted it as a 100,703-to-13,425 victory...