Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terms with Madrid. Unless they were ready to add intervention in Spain to their other problems, there was little they could yet do to bring to pass Socialist Leader Indalecio Prieto's modest proposal: that the Spanish people, in accordance with the Atlantic Charter, be allowed freely to elect their own government...
Before this meeting, it appears that there is about as much material here as there has been for the past few years. Captain-elect Cleo O'Donnell is at Parris Island, but the war has brought some good-looking prospects to the banks of the Charles, including two whispered-about heroes from Minnesota. And Swede Anderson, George Hibbard, Paul Perkins, and a few others are still around from last year's squad...
...Cardinal Pacelli came face to face with the event which was to climax his ecclesiastical career. Pope Pius XI died. From all points of the compass Cardinals rushed to Rome to elect his successor. Cardinal Pacelli personally wired the Italian Line to ask that the Neptunia make an extra fast trip so that the Latin American Cardinals would arrive for the voting. In his haste one Cardinal was compelled to fly from Portugal over the battle lines of the Spanish Civil War. For the first time in history U.S. Cardinals also were present at the conclave to elect a Pope...
Last week Joseph Patrick Ryan saw a chance to do democracy a kindness in return. One of his vice presidents, George W. Millner, is a Negro. So Joseph Patrick Ryan suggested that the union elect Millner for life-"as an object lesson to the entire labor movement that unity can be achieved by elimination of race, creed and color prejudice." At the same time, of course, the union might as well elect Mr. Ryan for life...
Mexico went to the polls last Sunday to elect seven governors and the 147 mem bers of its Chamber of Deputies. The day was warm, picnics popular, voting light and the closing days of the campaign comparatively dull. Results: two dead; eleven wounded; five students beaten; a woman arrested for shin-kicking her husband's opponent; the incumbent P.R.M. (Party of the Mexican Revolution) apparent winner of approximately 140 seats...