Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing, a new army landed on the coast of Fukien Province (about halfway between Shanghai and Hong Kong).It was a pathetic puppet army, and its generalissimo was a poet, scholar, gentleman, politician, anything but a fighter-Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei. The Japanese said it was made up of 50,000 Chinese who love the New Order. Its name, which only the Japanese could have devised: The Peace and National Reconstruction Army...
Harvard has eight "final" clubs, whose members set the pace for the Harvard accent, Harvard "indifference." The Pore is the most exclusive and most awesome of the eight. Preliminary skimming is performed by the Hasty Pudding Club, which each year elects 45 sophomores as Harvard's social cream. The final clubs pick most of their members from the Pudding. The Pore is most likely to elect the sons and relatives of old Porkies, closely examines each candidate's family tree. But congeniality counts as much as pedigree, and the three to 18 members whom the Pore elects from...
Thus although elected class officers have presumably made a permanent exit from the Yard, Freshmen will be called to the polls again within two weeks to elect a panel of ten men, who will serve as the nucleus of the Smoker and Jubilee Committees...
...Chilean bourgeoisie to develop their own industry and commerce, to get a share of the business now in the hands of foreign capital, to break up the semi-feudalism of agriculture. Their struggle against reaction led to their alliance with Chile's Socialists and Communists to elect Don Tinto President in 1938, but many now think that the aims of their fellow travelers are bad for business, and one who so thinks is Leader Florencio...
...Wilmington, Del., one day last week, went a handful of the 10,000-odd stockholders of Aviation and Transportation Corp. Gathered in its boardroom in the Corporation Guarantee & Trust Co., they helped elect three new directors (one of them bristle-maned ex-Champ Gene Tunney), asked a few questions, went their ways. Question none of them thought to ask was one that has been kicked around in the flying business like a sandlot soccer ball : what is ATCO going to do about simplifying its corporate structure...