Word: elected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order that the question, which will be discussed at each meeting, may be presented to the members by some one who has studied it, the president will elect two men to support the proposition and two to oppose it, and these four will conduct a short debate before the question is laid open to discussion by the house...
...LaFollette group will have its candidates for office which it probably will not elect; but it will endeavor by this means to prevent the election of extreme conservatives, and to obtain for itself important committee places...
...Democrats, might, by alliance with Republican insurgents, elect their own men to official places, but this is not their plan, for they would rather make the Republicans assume full responsibility for the next Congress. The Democrats will, however, demand greater representation on committees because the Republican majorities are reduced in the new Congress...
...valuable to the regular Republicans and not very objectionable to other groups. The Democrats will nominate to run against him, Representative Finis J. Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic floor leader in the last House. His nomination will be purely a matter of form, since the Democrats have no desire to elect him; it is the custom for the minority party to nominate for Speaker, the man whom later becomes its floor leader. The insurgents planned to name to oppose Mr. Gillett, Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin, a Representative whose service began at the same time as Mr. Gillett's. His nomination...
...Marquis Kuni is a brother of Princess Nagako, who may one day be Empress of Japan, being at pres-ent the bride-elect of Prince Regent Hirohito. The royal wedding was postponed at the time of the recent earthquake (TIME, Sept...