Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even hired college athletes from Pittsburgh. But there was still a South the rest of the U.S. could not quite understand. That South loved buffoons, corny oratory and the smell of violence; its prophets were demagogues like "Tom Tom" Heflin, Huey Long, Senator Bilbo and the late governor-elect of Georgia, turkey-necked "Old Gene" Talmadge. Last week it got a new one-at least temporarily. Old Gene's heavy-lidded, 33-year-old son Herman (pronounced Hummon) claimed that he was now the governor of Georgia...
Hummon got busy. On election day, 675 hastily coached Talmadge backers scratched Old Gene's name off their ballots and wrote in Hummon's. This placed him second to Gene's 143,279. When Old Gene died, Hummon and an ex-Georgia legislator named Roy V. Harris set out to parlay this handful of paper into the governorship. They put their faith in a line in the constitution which read: "If no person shall have [a] majority (of the total votes cast) then from the two persons having the highest number of votes . . . the General Assembly shall...
...toward the velvet-draped bier. After a short scripture reading, the choir began to sing Mrs. Bond's The Hand of You. Then white-maned Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Chancellor of the University of Southern California, began the "narration:" "No vote of critics, no surge of publicity can elect a composer to the shrine reserved for those who write our folk music. Only the voices of the hearts of the people may choose the candidate for this honor...
...thirds of a majority of the College will be required to put the new instrument into operation. If the draft is accepted each House will elect one man to the Council sometime in February. Electees will merely fill out the terms of the seven or more members whose terms expire on February 3. The first regular full election under the new constitution will be held in May, when a '47-'48 Council will be named...
With the taste of their first Ivy League triumph sweet upon the tongue, the mermen retired after the victory to elect John G. Watkins '46 of Hawaii and Lowell House as Varsity captain. The Freshmen picked Charles F. Grover '50, a Boston commuter, for the same honor...