Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will of the people will be the deciding factor," President Paasikivi had promised the two million Finns who trooped quietly to the polls last week to elect a new Parliament. It was the first Finnish election since the signing of the Russo-Finnish "mutual assistance" pact (TIME, April 19). Early returns indicated that the Communist-led Democratic Union had lost at least eight of their 51 seats, dropped from first place to third. Finland's Agrarians and Social Democrats had gained enough to climb to first and second places...
Students at Ohio's coed Antioch College in Yellow Springs join no fraternities or sororities, never wear caps & gowns, care nothing for intercollegiate sports and, in several courses, grade themselves. Working with the faculty, they set the campus rules, vote community "taxes," and each year elect a paid student manager to run the college. Students even vote on the hiring & firing of professors. Last week, when Antioch chose a new president, an undergraduate was on the seven-man committee that did the choosing...
...Ecuadorian politicos matched Galo Plaza's calm. After eight years of revolution & counterrevolution, and five Presidents (only one of whom was elected), the country had finally had a rootin', tootin' reasonable facsimile of a U.S.-style campaign ; it had ended in a fairly honest election. The unofficial tally: Independent Galo Plaza, 116,496; Conservative Manuel Elicio Flor, 112,509; Liberal Alberto Enriquez, 56,942. Even so, Galo Plaza was not necessarily the President-elect...
President-elect Prio and the Auténticos also got a majority in Congress. But the minority might be lively. Among the new senators: moonfaced ex-Dictator Batista, who had directed his campaign from a deck chair in Daytona Beach, Fla., and was expected to return to Cuba in September...
...kind to Arthur Capper. I love him. But I don't want to have a man 80 or 90 years old representing us in writing the [peace] treaty that will affect you students and my grandson." The word went down the line that only a miracle could now elect old Arthur Capper...