Word: elect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...christened capital one Dr. Tchou Gao-hsing assumed the title of "Foreign Minister," announced last week to the Great Powers that the marshal will shortly call a People's Congress in Peking to elect Yen the President of all China, and that President Yen will have as his war minister famed General Feng Yu-hsiang, redoutable master of the largest private army in the world: 150,000 men (TIME, July...
Fifteen members of the Junior Class and 12 members of the Sophomore Class have been nominated by the Student Council for election to next year's council. Of this number, seven Juniors and three Sophomores will be elected. After the election, the new members will meet and elect three additional Juniors and two more Sophomores...
...Wheeler, than whom none has more bitterly flayed the Republican "reproduction cost" principle, arose at a Jefferson Day dinner in Manhattan to propose Governor Roosevelt for the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination. He specified two issues: 1) Tariff; 2) Power. Said he: "If the Democrats of New York will re-elect Franklin Roosevelt Governor, the West will then demand his nomination for President and the whole country will elect him in 1932." Others last week thought other things about Governor Roosevelt and Power...
...voluntary contributors to the Wet cause. Seven wealthy men, including three du Fonts, supply about 60% of the organization's budget. Last year A. A. P. A. spent $473-213; this year it hopes to raise $1,000,000 for the Congressional campaign. Its prime purpose is to elect Wet candidates to office. In 1928 it supported 19 nominees for the House, excluding sitting members. Two of its candidates were elected. It promotes such Wet rallies as the Black Duck mass meeting in Boston (TIME. Jan. 13), finances such Wet speakers as Maryland's Governor Ritchie. It largely...
...Friday, June 6, the regular business session of the Associated Harvard Clubs will be held to discuss the reports of officers and committees, to elect officers, and to select the place of the next meeting. As part of the Friday meeting it is expected that Professor H. E. Clifford, acting Dean of the Engineering School, will speak on the work of this department of the University. Assistant Professor K. B. Murdock '16 will speak on recent developments of the House Plan, while J. F. Dwinell '02 will make a report on the Harvard Employment Service. In the evening the annual...