Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers will elect a Lieutenant Governor. A Republican victory would be a vote of confidence in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's administration, might prove that the Governor's grip on pivotal New York is strong enough to swing the State in a Presidential election. But the Governor would be reluctant to give up his job-even to campaign for the Presidency-if it meant turning over the State to the New Deal through a Democratic Lieutenant Governor. Last week the two candidates stepped gingerly into a four-week campaign...
Concurrently Thomas S. Kuhn 44, First Marshal, announced that another election will be held early next term. "Under the war-time system," he stated, "elections will be held after each term to choose new members from those awarded degrees. One additional meeting in the summer term will be called to elect Junior members and exceptional students on leave of absence...
...almost as breathtaking as if the Vatican had suddenly given its blessing to atheism. The Moscow radio announced this week that the Soviet Government would permit what remains of the Greek Orthodox Church,* disestablished since the Russian Revolution, to elect a Patriarch and form a Holy Synod. This act would amount to official restoration of the church in Russia, where, despite official Soviet apologetics, religion has in effect been banned since the advent of the Bolsheviks...
...this reception, says the Moscow radio, the three Metropolitans "informed" Stalin that the Orthodox Church intends to call a council of bishops, elect a Patriarch of Moscow and form a Holy Synod...
...stationed at Eliot and Kirkland Houses are to elect a representative House Committee similar to the same organizations in the Houses still retained by the College. The election will take place tomorrow and the new representatives are expected to attend the Inter-house Committee meeting on Thursday...