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Word: elects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Cold Comfort | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dogi Cligin & the West | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...others would rule that a majority of the plant approve any strike vote and force unions to elect officers annually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Young Republicans, HLU Open Fall Drives With First Meetings Today | 9/28/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Good-Tempered Candidate | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mowing 'Em Down | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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