Word: canvassing
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...long and silently pondered. Should he try to be original? Or should he announce simultaneously his retirement and his candidacy lor his old Kansas seat in the Senate? Looking for an answer, Charles Curtis, who sits in the Cabinet by presidential courtesy, last week journeyed back to Kansas to canvass. Not until next winter, though, would he announce his plans...
...Hoover canvass closed with a triumphal trip across the continent to vote at his Palo Alto home?a formality new to the Republican candidate. There he received the returns which, by the greatest electoral college majority in U. S. history, transformed Nominee Hoover into President-elect Hoover. Tears of joy and gladness coursed down his plump cheeks under the California stars. Next came the South American goodwill trip, a prelude of grandeur during which Mr. Hoover tasted the sweets of sovereignty. Back in the U. S. he busied himself with Cabinet carpentry in Florida, fidgeted impatiently. And then that cold...
...leader who could keep the new Cortes subservient to the Crown. Promptly His Majesty called off the elections he had ordered, called upon Prime Minister Damaso Berenguer (who was still in bed with eczema of the foot) and obtained the cabinet's resignation. Then began the frantic canvass of politicians, the procession of truculent greybeards, through the Royal Palace, men who have been like deflated toy balloons under the Dictatorship, but are now distended again by the breath of power...
...World Court written and ready to send to the Senate, President Hoover was informed that at least 20 Senators would oppose ratification of the Root Formula so strenuously as to block any chance of action at this session. But the President was comforted to hear that a canvass of 2,036 U. S. newspapers revealed 1,357 in favor of the World Court. ¶ Early one morning Mrs. Hoover motored down to the Union Station, hid herself behind the concourse grill while Boris, the President's valet, went through the gate and down the platform. A long Pullman train...
...canvass of leading non-religious magazines made by TIME (March 24) revealed no avowed supporter of Prohibition save Ladies' Home Journal...