Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointing Charles Francis Adams '88, treasurer of Harvard College, as Secretary of the Navy, President-elect Hoover has shown himself to be influenced by more than political considerations. That there were other men whom the public could have better expected chosen, was evidenced by the fact that Mr. Adams's name was not even mentioned by the press as a possibility, although he was among those who have recently conferred with Mr. Hoover in Miami. It seems plain that the new cabinet will be appointed with less regard for invisible government, and more for personal qualifications...
...politicians of all colors and conditions; to listen to their tales, dispel their fears, promise them nothing. Meanwhile, into the Hoover presence were ushered a few Southern gentlemen, ponderously respectable, eager to impart advice, to deplore the Negro's domination of Southern Republican politics. Infinitely patient, the President-Elect listened and listened...
...Senate Ladies' Luncheon Club was distressfully snarled on the election of a president to succeed Mrs. Dawes. By custom the Vice President's wife presides. But Vice President-Elect Curtis is a widower. His sister, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, is to serve as his official hostess. Should that make her a Senate Lady? Should that make her president of the club...
...Grundy is a man who raised $700,000 to elect Mr. Coolidge in 1924; who raised $615,000 in 1926 to elect a governor* of Pennsylvania who would veto a corporation stock tax; who raised $547,000 to elect Mr. Hoover in 1928. Mr. Grundy is a worsted maker of Bristol, Pa., and president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Grundy is the man who has gone down to Washington about every tariff bill since the Dingley Bill of 1897. Who knows better than Mr. Grundy why the Pennsylvania delegation in the House caucused unanimously for a special session...
...hundred thousand persons at the lowest count turned out last week, in Mexico City, to follow the hearse of a young man whose sole distinction is that he assassinated Mexico's President-Elect General Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July...