Word: elected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John G. Mott, of Los Angeles, California, a personal friend of President-elect Hoover's was one of the contestants...
...name of John G. Mott on board the Utah, on our cruise with the President-elect, was almost a byword...
Calvin Coolidge came in. Everybody stood up and clapped. Suddenly a man threw open the centre door and announced in a great voice: "The President-Elect of the United States." And who should walk in but The Chief himself...
...eleventh hour attempt to swing South Africa's coming General Election by virtually disenfranchising the Negroes of Cape Colony was made last week by Prime Minister James Barry Munnik Hertzog. "We have paused on the brink of a sure and certain abyss," read a Hertzog manifesto, "and the question is: Shall the white race in Africa plunge down to final destruction?" As alternative General Hertzog offered to Parliament a bill which would deprive the Cape Province Negroes of their present "equal franchise," but would permit them to separately elect five white M. P.s-whereas they have had a deciding vote...
Seldom has there been a national political situation more grotesque. General Hertzog remains Prime Minister by virtue of a slim, coalition majority in the House of Assembly-a majority constantly threatened by the Negro-elected Cape Province M. P.s. In the Senate the Smuts party reigns supreme, holding 25 seats out of 40. Thus the House and Senate negate each other on almost every important bill, and showdowns must be constantly had under the Constitutional provision that both chambers shall sit, fight, and vote jointly when unable to come to an agreement as separate bodies. The bill which Prime Minister...