Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep on good terms with good neighbors in Latin America, and turn bad ones into good ones, the U. S. lately has lavished foofaraw and funds on Brazil, Haiti, Nicaragua. Last week in Washing ton, Paraguay's President-elect José Félix Estigarribia got his share: a $500,000 credit to bolster the wavering Paraguayan peso, plus further loans to finance purchases of U. S. materials, machinery, services for Paraguayan roads and industry...
...respectability he has not been unmindful of the ethics of his profession. Two months ago the Inquirer posted on its masthead the slogan: "An Independent Newspaper for All the People," and it has kept its promise of independence. It has soured on Governor James, whom it helped to elect, has roasted the Legislature for killing Philadelphia's much-needed City Charter Bill, will back a Democratic mayoralty ticket next fall if Annenberg does not like the Republican nominee. Publisher Annenberg likes to think of himself as a crusader, wound up one editorial with a neat metaphorical blend: "Political skunks...
Donald A. Donahue '41, aco Crimson hurdler and a member of the Yale-Harvard track team which will meet an Oxford-Cambridge cinder combine at White City, England, on July 15 has withdrawn from the high hurdles in order that Jay Shields, Yale captain elect, may make the trip and compete in the event...
From 29 members of their class nominated the Juniors will choose six to represent them on the Council, while the Sophomores will elect three from 12 of their class nominated...
...particularly perceptive and persuasive type, but beyond Maine and a few scattered corners of New England, Mr. Coffin's ability as a poet does not exist. It is said that he is a "regionalist," and that his poems can be understood in their full implications only by the elect versed in the ways of those exceptional anthropoids who carry on their own quaint, inbred existence north of Portland...