Word: reelection
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city employees, buy $1,200,000 worth of war surplus equipment for $300,000, and appropriate $1,500,000 for permanent veterans housing. The majority of these improvements were passed by a slim 5-4 vote in the nine-man Council. Any decision by Cambridge voters either to reelect the five Councilmen favoring Plan E or to discard managerial government should be made with regard to the merits or demerits of the system and not because of the truculent howls of frustrated politicians...
Britons have a steadily deepening interest in U.S. as well as home politics. Two weeks ago the Yorkshire Post, owned by Anthony Eden's family, asked Americans to reelect Mr. Roosevelt. Last week the Church of England Newspaper (which, despite its name, speaks only for a Low Church faction) plunked for Term IV: "To pretend that the [U.S.] election this year is the concern only of the American people is just stupid. . . . [It] is fraught with incalculable significance for all mankind...
...worth saving. When an elected person feels that his election is a way of assuring himself of an income for life, I doubt that he will be any more ready to serve the people than the man who goes to the electorate and asks them to reelect him on the things he has accomplished, albeit small...