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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DIRECTIONS For each of the questions five possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answers sheet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Current affairs Test | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

When these ten men have been elected, according to the new plan the Student Council Representatives on Freshman affairs "shall then be empowered to assign the elected members to the two Committees, to appoint the remaining members of each Committee, and to select a Chairman of each Committee from the complete membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Vote Down Election of Officers | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

...provisions of the new "constitution" codify existing practices with regard to the financial organization of Freshman activities, and the choosing of a Red Book board. The Student Council Representatives, as at present, will pick a Red Book Chairman each fall, and he will in turn, subject to their approval, select a business manager. These two men will then fill other positions on the board by holding competitions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Vote Down Election of Officers | 2/21/1940 | See Source »

...more complicated political system could be devised than U. S. Presidential primaries, which are held in 15 or 16 of the 48 States. In these primaries the people ostensibly select delegates who will go to the Party convention, there vote for the man they are "instructed" to nominate for President. These delegates are supposedly bound to keep on voting for The People's choice until he is nominated or hopelessly out of the race.* In most States, both parties are content to leave political maneuvering up to State conventions, let them pick what delegates they please to send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Thawing Out | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...this week's Republican primary to select a successor to Chester Bolton, his widow, Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, who campaigned for him since 1932, is unopposed. After the special election late this month observers expect the title "richest man in Congress" to pass to Frances Payne Bingham Bolton, 54, mother of three grown sons. Supposed to be even wealthier than her late husband, Mrs. Bolton is the rich and comely daughter of a pioneer Cleveland banker and industrialist, granddaughter of Senator Henry B. Payne. She gave $2,250,000 for Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Western Reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Rich Widow | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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