Word: elected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voters, however, than any of these subjects, was Mr. Raskob's inauguration of the great political game of Claiming States. First of the Big Four to begin the game in a formal way, Mr. Raskob made his beginning a bold one. It takes 266 electoral votes to elect the President. Mr. Raskob said that "any reasonably prudent businessman would, at this time," classify 27 States, with 309 electoral votes, in the Smith-Robinson column. He named his claims as follows...
...President Calvin Coolidge. Indeed Death has taken most parents of living Presidents. Singularly blessed, therefore, is 70-year-old President Michael Hainisch of Austria-for last week a movement to re-elect him for a third term was set on foot by his Mother...
Next December a National Council, composed of members of both houses of the Austrian Parliament will quietly elect a President. His duties are only by courtesy executive. The acting Chief Executive is the Prime Minister (Monsignor Ignaz Seipel...
...Congress had met to deal with the grave crisis resulting from the recent assassination of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). Until President Calles mounted the Tribune and began his 5,000-word address, Mexicans were half persuaded that he would attempt to succeed himself as President, though Mexico's Constitution forbids...
...conclusion the President called upon all present-specifically upon the Divisional Generals and the Governors-to cooperate in the disinterested choice of a provisional president ad interim, and to facilitate the legal election of a candidate to replace assassinated President-Elect Obregon. Señor Calles retires from office...