Word: elects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Asked Congress to amend the organic act of Puerto Rico to permit that impoverished island to elect its own Governor, revealed that he had set up an advisory committee of eight-four Americans, four Puerto Ricans. Head of the committee: Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, for whom Under Secretary Abe Fortas will serve. Best-known Puerto Rican on the committee: the famed leader of the Popular Democratic Party, cavalry-mustached Luis Muñoz Marin...
...after the ashes of Speaker Edward Algernon Fitzroy (TIME, March 15) were ceremoniously buried in the chancel of Westminster's blitzed St. Margaret's Church, The House of Commons assembled to "elect" his successor. Actually, the new Speaker had already been selected by the majority Conservative Party, approved by Laborites; it only remained for the House to play through a venerable mumbo jumbo...
When the Class of '45 goes to the polls today to elect their class officers in the fourth election of its kind in a single year, they will break a tradition already disrupted beyond recognition by the fortunes...
With early graduation and complete annihilation threatening the Class, the election of officers has been moved up two years from its usual date. The unfortunate Class of '46 will not have a chance to elect officers till after the war, making this the last election of its kind for a time at least...
With Class Elections usually coming in the second semester of the Senior year, this March would ordinarily be just about time to choose officers for 1943. But they were picked, last sprin, and '44 followed quickly last fall. The Class of '45, now part Junior and part Sophomore, has had to rush to elect before its entire membership is called to service, while '46 is not now expected to elect until after...