Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toral was not only clean shaven, but clad in black sack coat, double-breasted vest, and trousers of smart pin stripe. Speaking deliberately for two full hours, he explained to the caballeros and señoras of the radio audience minutely how and why he assassinated the President-Elect...
...buzzing in the Palo Alto living room became a loud caucus of triumph. John Philip Sousa's band blared its best. The President-elect was sitting down at the moment. He did not get up at once but sat, eyes downcast, embarrassed, rubbing his forehead with his fingertips. They wanted a speech. "Not tonight," he said. Outside the house, a phalanx of Stanford University undergraduates yelled persistently. The President-elect reluctantly took his way to the terraced roof of his house, under the California stars. Tears glistened on his cheeks as he looked down on that fragment...
...People elected last week the 71st Congress of the United States, but the first meeting of this Congress does not occur until December, 1929, unless President Hoover should call a special session, which, he indicated might conceivably be necessary to deal with the farm problem. In order to elect this Congress it was necessary for the People to choose 435 members (all) of the House of Representatives, and 36 out of the 96 members of the Senate. This the People apparently accomplished, as the Election did not bring forth any controversy such as surrounded the election of Pennsylvania...
Phillips Lee Goldsborongh was Republican Governor in the pre-Ritchie era. Last week he defeated bumbling Senator Bruce. The Goldsborough name is one which, by some analyses of ancient Maryland society, is even more elect than the great name of Carroll. Another Goldsborough, this one a Democratic cousin of the Senator-elect, was re-elected to the House...
...name of Alfred Emanuel Smith loomed mightier than ever last week. Not only was he elected Governor of New York for the fourth time by a plurality of some 250,000 votes, not only did he sweep a large part of the Democratic ticket into office with him, but he established himself as the most mentionable personality in his party until the 1928 presidential nomination is settled." Thus reported TIME, after the November elections of 1926. In 1928, a Democrat again became Governor of New York despite a national Republican landslide (as Smith had done in 1924). The victor...