Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were few World War II veterans among the 3,400 delegates, fewer still among the 30,000 other Legionnaires who came along for the fun-although they outnumber World War I veterans two to one among the Legion's 3,000,000 members. In the battle to elect next year's commander, the old-guard "king makers" squelched a rebellion by the younger veterans, steamrolled serenely on to victory with stocky, bespectacled S. Perry Brown, 56, veteran of both wars and general manager of a Beaumont, Tex. building-materials company. It wasn't even close...
...time his "Victory Special" rolled into California, Tom Dewey had observed one salient fact. At every whistle-stop and cattle crossing, the line that invariably drew loud applause was an attack on Communists in the Government, along with the remark: "I suggest you elect an administration that simply won't appoint them in the first place...
...others would rule that a majority of the plant approve any strike vote and force unions to elect officers annually...
...anyone. He was simply going out to meet the folks and to show himself, his wife and his pretty 20-year-old daughter Virginia to the voters. He wanted to assure everyone that the nation was fundamentally sound, and that the best way to keep it sound was to elect a Republican administration in November...
...These gluttons of privilege are now putting up fabulous sums of money to elect a Republican administration . . . that will listen to the gluttons of privilege first and the people...