Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arrived in Manhattan, Plutarco Elias Calles, President-elect of Mexico, en route for Mexico City from travels in Europe (TIME...
...partridge, salad and mousse," stood up to indicate the policy that his administration would follow. Enthusiastic applause greeted him. Standing with his back to the Stars and Stripes, his bulging shirtfront "full of chest," his chin sticking out "like a fist held in front of his face," the President-elect began : "Señores capitalistas," and continued in Spanish...
...North Carolina .. 12 .. North Dakota .. .. 5 Ohio 24 .. .. Oklahoma .. 10 .. Oregon 5 .. .. Pennsylvania 38 .. .. Rhode Island 5 .. .. South Carolina .. 9 .. South Dakota .. .. 5 Tennessee .. 12 .. Texas .. 20 .. Utah 4 .. .. Vermont 4 .. .. Virginia .. 12 .. Washington .. .. 7 West Virginia .. 8 .. Wisconsin .. .. 13 Wyoming 3 .. .. Total 281 200 50 Necessary to elect...
...Coolidge will win by a clear majority, but he will not have a workable Congress. There is little chance now of the election being thrown into the House of Representatives. Davis and La Follette never had a chance to be elected this November; their only chance was to force the election out of the hands of the Electoral College." Such is the opinion of Professor A. N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government in the University, on the political situation today as the nation goes to the polls to elect its President and Vice-President for the next four years...
President-elect Plutarco Calles of the United Mexican States*, speaking at the American Club at Paris, said that he would strive to make his country the equal of the United States of America. "Since," said he, "the interests of the two people are similar, equality will be the more easily attained...