Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of New York City will elect a mayor. Outstanding issue in the campaign has been the year-old Rothstein murder case (TIME, Dec. 24) with accompanying charges of laxity and corruption in the present Tammany administration, headed by re-election-seeking Mayor James John Walker. Last fortnight, New Yorkers were surprised to hear that George A. McManus, labelled by the police as The-Man-Who-Killed-Rothstein, would be brought to trial on Oct. 15. Last week New Yorkers were disappointed to hear that the trial had been postponed to Nov. 12. For, said Judge Charles C. Nott...
Campaigning for next year's presidency was hardbitten. Dr. Percy Howe of Harvard Dental School ended his term last week. Dr. Robert Boyd Bogle of Nashville, president-elect last year, assumed the presidency. Who would be chosen president-elect? Army dentists and those who served in the Dental Corps during the War electioneered for Col. Robert T. Oliver of the Army Dental Corps. Others wanted Dr. Martin Dewey of Manhattan. Incoming President Bogle was so eagerly interested in such association politics that he was typically ungracious to those few reporters who wanted dental information for their readers...
While the run of dentists tired themselves attending lectures, looking at exhibits, seeing Washington sights, buying tourist knicknacks for the folks at home, Dr. Bogle confabulated with henchmen. Candidate Dewey confabulated, also Candidate Oliver. After covert dickers the association elected the Army's Robert T. Oliver their president-elect for 1930-31. An able dental technician, President-Elect Oliver is, like almost all his colleagues, not an important scientist. Neither Who's Who in America nor American Men of Science recognizes him. Neither do these compilations recognize outgoing President Howe or incoming President Bogle...
Last fortnight was election week in Oberammergau, Germany. But not for a mayor, police chief or sheriff did the citizens vote. Pious and thoughtful, a committee representing all the citizens met to elect a new cast for their world-famed Passion Play in which the entire village takes part...
...speech-on Boston Common yesterday afternoon, L. B. Cohen Jr., '32 president of the Harvard Socialist Club and distributor of "Welcome To MacDonald" circulars, urged labor to elect representatives to the legislature to take the places of those who were the nominees of capitalists...