Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small boy, approached my father, a very good business man, with the proposition that he should furnish me with a penny to buy some candy. He told me that we were in a political campaign and there was a probability, a possibility at least, that we were going to elect a Democrat for President. Such an action, he said, would undoubtedly be followed by hard times and therefore it was necessary to economize...
...theatre in Moscow, draped in mourning for Lenin, the Congress of Soviets of the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics met to elect a successor to Nikolai Lenin, late Chief Executive...
...years Harvard has had all election complex. Either the lower classmen are submitted to the boredom of the perfunctory process of raising the necessary sixty per cent, or the Seniors are worked up to a nervous pitch in the effort to pay just and final honors to this or that candidate who has shown his worth throughout his college career. Indifference and over-emphasis are unhappy extremes, but luckily traditional indifference in the lower class elections can do no serious damage. If classes want to spend several days drumming up enough votes to elect nominal officers no real harm...
...trying to create a system which would elect the three most popular candidates, the authors of the present constitution have succeeded only in insuring the election to the First Marshalship of a man who is undeniably the logical person. The Second and Third Marshals are elected by a majority of total votes, but it is a false majority and is inconsistent with the method of election of the First Marshal. The Class of 1923 elected a First Marshal who had less total votes than the Second Marshal. Such a system can only lead to confusion on the part...
...methods" had been employed, varying from the picturesque operations and announcements of Mr. Livermore (TIME, Nov. 12) to the steel extra dividend (TIME, Nov. 12) and kindred occurrences, business would probably have deteriorated until this Spring, have been dull all Summer and started up in the Fall. The Presidential election, despite assertions to the contrary, would have small influence on this. Owing to "stabilization," conditions are superficially better than we would expect at this time, but practically worse, since a real housecleaning in our business structure was needed. The stabilizing efforts of bankers and corporation directors have succeeded, but they...