Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Highways to everywhere, dental work for everybody, pensions for the old folks and bonuses for veterans-all this and more Earl Long promised the citizens of Louisiana if they would elect him governor. "Welcome" would be written over the capital door. "The governor gets his house free, and his groceries and everything free," Earl proclaimed, "and I want you all to come up to the mansion and have a cup of coffee. You might as well, because you'll be paying for it anyhow...
There is no real lead in the play. Top roles are shared by nine men, all of whom happen to be members of the Cambridge City Council. Their acting is well nigh flawless. The plot is centered around the futile and ludicrous efforts of a City Council to elect a mayor from among the members of the Council. To date they have held 319 ballots, and no one has been chosen, though at a point early in the balloting one of the actors had four votes and needed only his own to make him mayor of the city. Fortunately...
...giving comfort to the enemy! . . . Your brother is one of the principal contenders for the office of President. Yet today, by your vote, you will elect as mayor one of the foremost supporters in this community of the Roosevelt New Deal machine...
...last years, continued the voice, rendering the monarchy little more than an obstruction in the path of progress. "Consequently," it concluded, "and fully conscious of the importance of the action which we are about to take . . . we abdicate the throne. . . . We give the Rumanian people full freedom to elect its own new form of government...
...Captain-elect Kenny O'Donnell echoed Moravee's reaction. "I'm sorry to hear that Dick Harlow's health is worse. I'd like to join with Vince in wishing him all the best of luck...