Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UNDERSIGNED MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, ENDORSE THE RECENT DECISIONS OF THE REGENTS [in firing President Philip Wernette -TIME, Feb. 16]. WE AFFIRM FULL CONFIDENCE IN THE PRESIDENT-ELECT [Tom Popejoy]. WE EXPRESS COMPLETE ASSURANCE THAT HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS WILL BE MAINTAINED UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP...
...Poetry. PMAsters, many a steelman among them, gasped. When they had helped elect Jim Duff governor in 1946, they had no reason to expect that he would be anything but "regular." Before he got to Harrisburg, the only public office he had ever held was the solicitorship of his native Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb. Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success. On the side, he liked to read Elizabethan poetry...
YOUR WERNETTE-POPEJOY ARTICLE FEB. 10 ISSUE DOES SERIOUS AND WHOLLY UNMERITED DAMAGE TO UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO. . . . THE FACULTY OF THE UNIVERSITY IN RESIDENCE IS UNANIMOUS IN EXPRESSING FULL CONFIDENCE IN PRESIDENT-ELECT POPEJOY AND THE FIRM BELIEF THAT PRESENT HIGH ACADEMIC STANDARDS WILL BE MAINTAINED UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP...
...bill to reapportion seats in Parliament called, as well, for an end to a time-honored anachronism: plural voting. With a battle cry of "One man, one vote," Laborites denounced in particular the custom of having the financial "City" of London and the graduates of British universities elect their own M.P.s*. Last week, Morrison admitted that he could never think of the ancient City of London "without having in my veins some degree of emotion," but: "I am sorry ... I just cannot think of an argument for preserving the City's representation...
...very moment when the Dail met to elect a Taoiseach (literally: leader) , Dev had been hopeful. Of the splinter parties which had ended his Fianna Fall majority, he cracked scornfully: "Many a chisel has lost chips, but did you ever see anybody collecting the chips and trying to make another chisel out of them...