Word: elects
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David K. V. Golding '41 of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Dunster House was named last night to the coveted post of First Marshal of Phi Beta Kappa as the society's eight undergraduate members met in Lowell House to elect officers and to bestow the gold key on 16 additional members of the Senior Class...
...Hampshire Republican Robert Blood was still considered Governor-elect one week after the balloting, by 2,814 votes, with Democrat Clyde Keefe still talking of a recount...
...McDaniel had a lead of 50,000 on Tuesday night, with 75% of the vote reported. Down it went by morning to 17,000. By week's end, Donnell was ahead by 3,698 votes. With 8,000 still to be counted, newspapers hailed Forrest Donnell as Governor-elect. But disappointed Candidate McDaniel said he still had hope...
...Kansas, Republican Governor Payne Ratner appeared to be defeated in a State that went Republican, with absentee ballots officially deciding Kansas' new Governor. Residential voters gave Governor Ratner 416,480; Democratic Candidate William H. Burke, 418,359. But before that 1,879-vote margin made Mr. Burke Governor-elect, some 16,000 absentee ballots remained to be counted. Kansas politicos guessed they would not change the result...
...Jorge Ubico tall, scholarly President Eleazar Lopez Contreras has given the nation a decent, liberal, reformist Government. His term ends next April. Constitutionally, he cannot succeed himself. His people find it hard to imagine that he would attempt to do so by any other means. Fortnight ago elections in 13 of the 20 States gave a great victory to the Bloque Bolivariano coalition which favors the Lopez Contreras policies, led most of Venezuela to hope that the era of political liberalism would continue indefinitely. Venezuelans do not elect their President directly, but vote for municipal councilmen & State legislators who elect...