Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally last week the exhausted politicians arranged for parliament to elect as chancellor no one of their number, but a potent businessman, Dr. Ernst Streeruwitz, who in his youth was a smart cavalry officer of the Habsburg Imperial Guard. Such a choice will not long be stomached by the second largest Austrian party, the radical, devoutly Marxian "Social Democrats...
...certain reasonableness underlay the Rumor. Between President Hoover and Justice Stone exists a thoroughgoing friendship. Justice Stone was in the Hoover family circle the night its head was nominated at Kansas City. He fished with the President-Elect Hoover off Florida, and there suggested the name of William DeWitt Mitchell for Attorney-General. He dropped in for a friendly morning chat the day Mr. Hoover became President. He was among the first asked to join the medicine-ball exercise at 7 a. m. back of the White House...
...head"; that his talk about a "New Tammany" cloaked his personal ambition to be President. Smith said Tammany was small-minded; he suspected it had cut his presidential vote in the city for local, selfish ends of its own. Out of politics himself, he wished Tammany would elect as leader some man of wider experience than a district leader- someone like New York's Senator Wagner, for example-someone who could continue Tammany's influence in the National Democracy...
President-Elect Hutchins conducted himself skilfully in his first meeting with the press. In the best tradition he disclaimed any revolutionary ideas, and balanced his disclaimer with "I do have great ambitions for the future growth. . . ." For something to talk about, he said he "wondered" how he would feel about having co-eds under his charge. He expressed no alarm when he learned that his new charges had recently held a vote to determine their "MOST BEAUTIFUL MALE," had chosen pompadoured Captain Virgil Gist, of the University basketball team...
Herbert Hoover, as President-Elect skipped Cuba on his Latin-American tour this year. Significant or not, this omission was sufficient to bring out of the shadows all the anti-Machado agitators in the U. S. and to guide their footsteps to Secretary Stimson's door with requests that "something be done...