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Seen one way, Roy’s talismanic manicure is an object lesson for her fiercest critics: all flash and no substance, evidence the 34-year-old lacks the “gravitas” to be among the state’s most powerful elected lawyers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Doctor Hitler Alba Sanchez was elected mayor of Yungar, another Andean district, in 2018, saying he was "the good Hitler".
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
She is also much younger than any other candidate in the field, but would be slightly older than the youngest-ever elected U.N. secretary-general, Sweden’s Dag Hammarskjöld, who took office at 47 in 1953.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
MPs are elected according to how much support the list receives if it wins more than 3% of the vote.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Throughout 1932, the Hitler Youth campaigned heartily to get Nazis elected to the Reichstag, the legislative assembly or Parliament of Germany.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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