Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men take office immediately and in a meeting Thursday will select their own officers...
...Washington, D. C., Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., 19, opened an envelope from the War Department and read those words of Adjutant General James F. McKinley. Great was the pride of handsome, serious-minded Cadet-select Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., son of a West Pointer (1911) now attached to the War College, and only living great-grandson of one of the Military Academy's most famed graduates, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, Lieut.-General, Confederate States Army...
...according to the democratic principles which the university intends to foster. In the first place, exactly three-fourths of the candidates were nominated by a committee or council composed solely of upperclassmen: one sophomore, two juniors, and one senior. We do not in any way, however, object to the selections made by the members of that committee. We merely object to having upper classmen select our candidates. We feel that the candidates should be nominated by the Freshmen--every candidate, not merely one fourth of them. There are several ways in which this could be done: the petition method might...
...nation-wide consumption, Francis E. Ross, accounting professor at the University of Michigan who is in charge of the elections, carefully explained for the newsreels the mechanics of the balloting as pictures were taken of Packard workers going to the polls. The Packard vote, a primary election to select 40 men to run for places on a 20-man collective bargaining agency, went: 2,657 for unaffiliated candidates; 2,131 for company union candidates; no for the A. F. of L. union; 109 for Mechanics Educational Society of America; 18 assorted voted for I.W.W. and three other minor unions. Packard...
...More select than Japan's peerage is her caneage-those who are privileged to carry a cane in the presence of Divine Emperor Hirohito. Last week Tokyo had titillating intimations from the Imperial Household Ministry that Octogenarians Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi and Baron Tatsuo Yamamoto will this month be raised to the caneage...