Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaw McCutcheon and Brad Patterson, topnotch Yardling divers, together with Bus Curwen, distance man, and Bill Drucker, backstroker, ought to be the point winners for '43. The first-year men will elect a captain after the meet. From the spectator's point-of-view, the contest should be of unusual interest...
...annual meeting of the Harvard Crimson was held yesterday afternoon at which time the 1940 board relinquished their posts to the officers-elect of the 1941 board. The officers retiring included President Blair Clark, Managing Editor Sheffield West. Business Manager John J. Sisson. Editorial Chairman Garfield Horn. Executive Editor Charles N. Pollak H. News Editor Ralph Cutler, and Photographic Chairman Julisu Agoos. Each of the retiring officers read reports of the activities of their respective departments from the 1939-40 period...
...Chamber then proceeded to re-elect its regular President (Speaker), popular Edouard Herriot. Once the Soviet Union's most potent friend in France, Speaker Herriot last week denounced Moscow as "a regime seeking to crush the weak," called for maximum French aid to the Finns, brought the Deputies to their feet shouting, "Long live Finland!" The last three Reds said nothing, but it did not appear that they could stay, even if meek. Vice Premier Camille Chautemps introduced a bill to expel every last Red in France from office - from Chamber, Senate, from national, provincial and municipal offices...
Next, establishment of the Wang Ching-wei puppetry was again postponed. Puppet-elect Wang's "final" terms had been accepted by Army, China Affairs Board and tottering Cabinet, but the defection of Chinese support for the regime, and political troubles in Japan, meant new delays...
...first of these is the failure to report of George Polzer, a Senior who fits in exceedingly well with the Gullion system. Polzer was the spark and the play-maker of the quintet a year ago. He also plays baseball (he is captain-elect of next spring's team) and is carrying a heavy academic program. Therefore he is not yet certain that he can spare the time for basketball. He may turn out later, but currently he is absent from the squad...