Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of the United States fail to elect Herbert Hoover as the next president, they can be classed as a bunch of saps"?Thomas Alva Edison...
Finally rejected the credentials of Senator-elect Frank Leslie Smith of Illinois (see below...
...bring it to the attention of American Protestants. But the open letters and Theological explanations intended to allay fear of the primacy of the Church over the temporal affairs of its communicants have made few converts. No logic can move the man who says flatly that he will not elect for his president one who has kissed the Pope's ring, even, it may be supposed, if the one in question is the greatest governor New York ever had. The stupid assertions about drinking that have been made by drys who now oppose Smith, are incredible enough, but atatcks...
...Wilbur, the former as an added compliment to Latin-America, the latter to rest from an arduous life, to bolster Navy morale and perhaps to see his brother, Delegate Ray Lyman Wilbur. There would not be room for the President and his two Secretaries on the Texas should they elect to sleep there instead of ashore in Havana. Commanding Admiral null was having to move out for his Commander-in-Chief as it was. Besides, the party was to include Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Kellogg, Mrs. Wilbur. It seemed likely that President & Mrs. Coolidge would maintain only a statutory residence...
Porto Rico. People: U. S. citizens. Horace M. Towner is the U. S. Governor. His salary $10,000. Population: Spanish whites 950,000, mulattos 300,000, blacks 50,000. The natives elect their own Senate & House and further elect a resident Commissioner who represents them in the U. S. Congress. Island ceded by Spain to U. S. in 1898. At San Juan is the ancient Shrine of Ponce de Leon and the new Condado-Vanderbilt Hotel. Juan Ponce de Leon was appointed by Columbus the Lieut. Governor of "Hispaniola" (Haiti) and from there captured the island of Porto Rico, believing...