Word: elect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...July 7, you said he voted against the Soldier Bonus. He did not . . . (profanity deleted). He voted FOR the bonus, not once as some white-livered Senate sisters did, but TWICE ... to ride over President Coolidge's veto. That bonus vote of his is going to help re-elect him this year and don't you forget it! He's a good guy, even if the photo of him you used don't look...
TIME is glad to learn that shotless, bloodless elections are less unusual in Colombia than they were made to seem by President-Elect Olaya in a Manhattan speech last month, when he emphasized that during his election none were shot, that his election was accepted by all parties without bloodshed...
Livingston, the 17-year-old Kent stroke, collapsed after the Princeton race. They had to carry him into the hotel. Next day Kent finished a half-length behind Worcester College, Oxford, whom they had been figured to beat easily. Kent's assistant Coach Colmore, captain-elect of next year's Princeton varsity, said: "My oarsmen were tired out before they started." But so had they tired the Worcester crew that Worcester lost the final and the Thames Challenge Cup to the Vesta Boat Club by a whole length...
...holding all the voting stock, Publisher Hearst remains in absolute control of all his papers, as before. But if Hearst Consolidated ever fails to pay four consecutive dividends on the preferred stock, the preferred holders-employes and the general public-may elect a majority of the directorate...
...University of North Carolina's trustees, last week, took four ballots to elect Frank Porter Graham, faculty member since 1914, to succeed Henry Woodburn Chase, new president of the University of Illinois (TIME, March 3). A famed North Carolina Liberal, history-teaching President Graham was chosen through the influence of younger alumni although he insisted he did not want the office...