Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock Monday, the University football squad will assemble at Notman's Studio to have its annual picture taken and to elect a captain for next year...
...next motor. It was a stag affair. Mrs. Coolidge was not present. Within the heavy portals of the Union League Club, some of the faces the President saw, the hands he shook, belonged to Governor John S. Fisher (see p. 11), Mayor W. Freeland Kendrick of Philadelphia, Senator-Elect William S. Vare and onetime (1922-27) Senator George Wharton Pepper, Chief Justice Robert von Moschzisker of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Railroad Presidents William Wallace Atterbury (Pennsylvania), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio), Patrick Edward Crowley (New York Central), Edward Loomis (Lehigh Valley) ; also Samuel Rea, onetime (1913-25) President of the Pennsylvania...
...racetracks. J. C. W. Beckham, Democrat, onetime (1915-21) U. S. Senator and onetime (1900-07) Governor, stood against mechanical, state-supervised betting, for private bookmaking. Each wanted to be Kentucky's Governor. Kentucky had a hard time deciding, but chose Mr. Sampson and the betting machines. Governor-elect Sampson announced that he would appoint none of his kin to office; that he who has three daughters,† would revoke Governor William J. Field's present rule against dancing in the executive mansion...
Mississippi was the other State to elect a Governor. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was the Democratic nominee. The voters knew him well-Odd Fellow, Elk, Mason, Baptist, Woodman, etc., etc., onetime (1908-12) State Senator, onetime (1912-16) Lieutenant Governor, onetime (1916-20) Governor. His opponents revivified bribery charges of which Mr. Bilbo was acquitted in 1916,- but election is a mere gesture in Mississippi. The Democratic nomination is all that matters. Nominee Bilbo became Governor-elect Bilbo once again...
California. Some 251,000 San Franciscans registered to elect a mayor. They had had but one mayor since 1912-crisp, greying Mayor James ( Plain Jim of the Mission") Rolph Jr. To oppose Mayor Rolph's reelection there had now stepped forward James E. Power, tEe power behind whom was Sheriff Tom Finn, old-time politician. Mayor Rolph endorsed William J. Fitzgerald to oust "Boss'' Finn as Sheriff, saying: "Bossism must be thrust down!" San Franciscans reflected that "Plain Jim Rolph of the Mission"†† was the man who had brought the Panama-Pacific International Exposition...