Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion for the upheaval was the Illinois primary election. Among the Democrats, nothing extraordinary happened. Their party was out of power and they quietly went to the polls to nominate candidates whom they scarcely hoped to elect next autumn unless Candidate Smith, for whom they meant the State's 58 uninstructed national delegates, can carry all before...
Senator. Frank Leslie Smith, the U. S. Senator-elect whom the U. S. Senate declared unseatable last winter, was thrust still farther aside by Otis F. Glenn, a young downstate lawyer. But Mr. Glenn's backer, hero of the great R-e-f-o-r-m movement, was thick-lensed U. S. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen, who, only a few months ago, was in league to get Smith seated. This shift was but one of the inconsistencies in Champion Deneen's campaign...
...Congressional districts of most states are anachronistic. Instead of redistricting themselves as their populations have grown, the States have been allowed, since the reapportionment of 1842, to elect new Representatives allotted to them "at large," i. e. by statewide instead of district vote. The present ratio of representation is one Representative to every 211,877 citizens. A congressman-at-large acquires a certain prestige from winning a statewide election; but, in Congress, he or she has no special position...
France goes to the polls, this week, to elect the 14th Chamber of Deputies of her present Third Republic. As happened in 1924, when the 13th Chamber was chosen, the Prime Minister who now faces the country is again M. Raymond Poincaré, 67, brisk, snowy haired, charming of manner, firm of mind, sagacious. Last time this paladin of politics lost the election (1924) and went out of power for two years. Then the collapse of the franc resulted in his being recalled to the Prime Ministry to restore the shattered finances of France (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926). That task...
...customary discussion of younger generation v. older generation and of adolescent sex-difficulties was attended to by U. S. Representatives from Yale University. Said Dr. Luther Allan Weigle, dean-elect of the Yale School of Divinity: "If the older generation is motor-mad, radio-ragged, jumping with jazz and hungry with lust, we may expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice...