Word: elect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator-elect White, personally popular, had won by an average "off-year" majority. Governor Gardiner, on the other hand, had defeated Nominee Moran two years prior by 80,000 votes. The other factors in Maine disputed any broad significance in its vote: 1) no drought; 2) no Prohibition issue; 3) little or no economic depression...
...eternal bickering and backbiting from Parliament, principally because its parties could not agree on certain constitutional alterations which Josef Pilsudski thinks necessary. So he had the President declare him Prime Minister (his only office hitherto has been Minister of War) and dissolve the Sejm and Senate pending November general elections. For his cabinet he chose five of the "colonel group." With the aid of his War veterans' organization, he may be able to elect a sizeable majority of his supporters next November. Aperiodically Dictator Pilsudski calls in the newspaper reporters and pours out a string of abuse...
Alabama. Republicans in convention voted to put up no party nominees for Senator or Governor, tacitly decided to throw their 50,000 votes to the independent candidacies of Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin for re-election and Hugh A. Locke for Governor. Republicans hoped less to elect these men than to break still further the state Democracy...
...lost the common touch." Boldly he admitted he would run the state government over Mrs. Ferguson's shoulder. He shouted: "Get two governors for the price of one. . . . I'll be right there with Mamma to pick up the chips and bring in the water when you elect her." He promised to "go easy" on bootleggers, repeated his wife's pledge to pardon 2,000 convicts in the State Penitentiary. He warned "Pinhead" Moody to "go back to smoking cigarets and crocheting." Crowds yelled "POUR it on, Jim" when he would declare: 'There...
...midst of a temporary but serious depression. . . . Elect a Democratic Congress in 1930 and this country will not see normal business again for some years...