Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week New York's thin-lipped, aging Bishop William Thomas Manning aimed an episcopal thunderbolt at un wary St. James' and its new vestryman-elect. In an action that he admitted was "unusual" he decreed that thrice-married Elliott "is not in good standing with the Church and therefore is not eligible for the office of vestryman and cannot serve in that capacity." Canon law forbids remarriage of di vorced persons except in case of infidelity...
Asked what the vestry of St. James' would do about the Bishop's bolt from the blue, Senior Warden Edmund Pendleton Rogers said: "I certainly think the vestry wouldn't go against Bishop Manning." Vestryman-elect Elliott Roosevelt (who had not asked to be a vestryman) said nothing...
...election time last week, the voters could not resist ousting the Democratic incumbent to make room for Mrs. Ashton's husband. (Term: six years; salary: $5.000 a year.) Nor could the Army keep him any longer. Judge-elect Ashton wall be home before Jan. I. Then Mrs. Ashton will probably retire from politics...
...that the elections were to be held on schedule, the Brazilian-in-the-street would have to look sharp to measure up to democracy's standards. The newly formed national parties would mean little. The political debates on the radio and in the press (if he could read) would at first be more confusing than Getulio's streamlined dialectics. Many a voter would rely on the mayor's or the priest's advice when called upon to elect a President and Congress...
...antagonism between the C.I.O. and A.F. of L. I don't want to light the fuse." Said Illinois' Scott Lucas, leading the fight for the Administration, "the basic reason [for the opposition] was that Mr. McKeough went out to work for the P.A.C. to help re-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt...