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Word: elects (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backfield, however, lacks the playing experience of the forward wall. '43 captain-elect Cleo O'Donnell is expected to re-enter College in June, and will probably share the wingback duties with Leo Flynn next fall. These two, however, are the only pre-war veterans who will be available...

Author: By Monroe S. Singer, | Title: Harlow Sees Fall Outlook Clouded By Uncertainties | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

...other 19 American republics, unwilling arbiters in the U.S. quarrel with Argentina, finally began to talk. The first comment last week was not promising for State Department hopes of joint action against President-elect Perón. Not one republic offered a feasible formula for drawing the hemisphere together again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Wanted: A Formula | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

When the U-boats of World War II hit hard at East Coast shipping, many Latin American traders had to turn to New Orleans. Spruce, young (34) deLesseps Story (Chep) Morrison, the city's mayor-elect, wants to keep them coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: South to the Future | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...what the world badly needed last week-food. And on the other side of the trade tables he held Argentina's two billion dollars in war-accumulated credits, for use in buying the world's goods. Argentina's Strong Man and President-elect figured he could win his way out of diplomatic isolation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Per | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...make the loudest small-town editorial voice of the U.S. When Populists roughed up dudish Editor White on the street, he reacted in an editorial broadside, What's the Matter with Kansas? His answer: Populism. The editorial made Editor White a national figure and helped to elect William McKinley President. It also made Republican Boss Mark Hanna White's devoted patron, a circumstance which once gave President McKinley a bad turn. Hanna first introduced Editor White to the President by putting his hand on White's shoulder and saying: "This is my boy." McKinley batted a shocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sage of Kansas | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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