Word: elects
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Republican Perils. The Senate is safely Democratic: of the 32 seats up this year, twelve are held by Southern Democrats, who are in effect elected right now. And even if the Republicans swept the remaining 20 seats-which is not even faintly possible, the Democrats would still control the Senate 54-41. Even the Republican seat of Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. may be pinched off by young, Irish Catholic Democrat Joseph Patrick Casey, a 1,000% New Dealer. Further, in Michigan many Republicans are expected to cross party lines to re-elect the Democrats' able hero...
...vote? Who can deny that modern youth is better informed, more serious and responsible, than ever before? And who can deny that our political judgment must, at the minimum, excel that of many voters of today--citizens who support Hamilton Fish by a three-to-one plurality, citizens who elect singing flour-salesmen to the Senate, citizen-suckers for vaudeville shows at political functions, citizen-cowards returning corrupt political machines year in and year out? Sturtevant Hobbs...
...should elect good men now and all the time in New York and every other State, but I doubt if this kind of journalistic haranguing will...
...question is not whether Germany can be defeated from the air. Air power is no substitute, no panacea for the pangs of war. The question is only whether the U.S. and Britain will elect to concentrate their maximum air strength against Germany this year. Bombing can mutilate Germany's might at home. Bombing, for the present, is the only way to strike the Germans at the sources of their power. Bombing, on a grand scale, is the only way to strike a blow which, if it does not defeat Germany, will at the least leave Germany crippled...
Swinging into action, the Interhouse Committee will elect a chairman within a few weeks. At the present time they are working on plans for an informal dance with orchestra, the date of which has not yet been set. In the fall another party will be held which will probably run along the lines of last year's Freshman Frolic...