Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...earth-moving machinery, dug the lake, and by a "bookkeeper's error" charged the $3,672.91 cost to the Keesler Army Air Field, which he was then helping construct. He explained airily his loans of $6,000 and his gift of a Cadillac to Bilbo: "We always elect poor folks in Mississippi...
Alumni will elect five men by postal bailot to fill vacancies on the Harvard Board of Overseers, the nominating committee of the Alumni Association announced Saturday. The Overseers will be picked from a field of 14 candidates to serve six-years terms. Results will be announced on Commencement Day, June...
Represented in the final list of Rhodes scholars-elect were 33 states and 35 colleges. West Point was third in number of accredited scholars, with four successful applicants. Yale had one scholar...
...Received some 2,000 guests in the gold and damask halls of the National Palace. ¶Got a ten-gallon Stetson and a cowboy shirt from a Texas delegation headed by Governor-elect Beauford Jester. ¶Received calls from leftist ex-President Cárdenas, rightist ex-President Abelardo Rodriguez and middle-of-the-road ex-President Camacho. ¶Made a big hit with newsmen by holding Mexico's first give& amp; -take presidential press conference, broke another Mexican precedent by starting it at the scheduled time. But he neatly parried all attempts to define his new regime...
Once every two years, the growing spirit of unity in U.S. Protestantism becomes a visible thing. The occasion: the biennial meeting of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Here delegates from the Council's 24 denominations come together to elect a new president, and lay new plans for enlarging the growing area in which U.S. Protestants work and think and speak...