Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allston Burr '89 was elected president of the Harvard Alumni Association for the coming year at a meeting of the directors of the association held at the Harvard Club of Boston, according to an announcement given out yesterday...
...were sent to the State capitals, where each man voted for two national candidates without indicating which candidate he wanted for President, which for Vice President. The election of 1800 was thrown into the House of Representatives because no candidate had a majority of electoral votes. Aaron Burr managed to delay the election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency, in the House, because, though it had been agreed that Burr was the Vice Presidential candidate, no distinction was provided for in the balloting. The 12th Amendment, passed in 1803, ratified in 1804, required the members of the Electoral College...
Chinamen in Boston, fired by the example of Patriot King, are rushing to Muller Field, newly opened airport. Nine young Nationalists have arranged for flying lessons. Burr Leyson, War pilot who taught Chinaman King, will sail in September to organize a Chinese air force...
Nine honorary degrees will be conferred by Tufts College. Dr. Frank Burr Mallory 86 will receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Science...
From Aaron Burr to William Jennings Bryan, Mr. Seitz deals with eighteen "also rans" in the Presidential sweeps-takes. Famous names appear, like John Calhaun, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. Men like John Fremont, James G. Blaine, less in the mouths of the public, receive their...