Word: elected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading citizens of Wisconsin both of whom talk well, talked last week: John J. Elaine, retiring Governor, U. S. Senator-elect, disciple of the late great free-speech Liberal Robert M. LaFollette; Glenn Prank, President of the University of Wisconsin. . . . Friends of Dr. Frank said he made Governor Blaine look like a Bourbon monkey...
Save for the President's pew and the diplomatic section, the Senate galleries were crowded long before 11 a. m. People sat on the floor in the aisles, breaking the rules. Word went about that Senator-designate and Senator-elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois was in the Republican cloakroom. Curious first row gallery-sitters craned their necks over the railing, hoping to see something, breaking another Senate rule. The hour of 11 approached. Senators sauntered to their desks, rustled papers. A gratuitous informer in the gallery pointed, whispered: "See that handsome man with the white hair; that...
...Said President-elect George David Stewart, regarding Prohibition: "Russia went dry in 1915 and then went crazy in 1917." Of death, he said: "It is the most merciful of all the most merciful provisions of nature." *He preserves interest in current affairs, including the oil market; owns control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie and Western Maryland railroads, which younger men wish...
...opportunity and encouragement is offered to those men whose interest is in Literature rather than in English Literature or in English Literature rather than in Anglo-Saxon and Linguistics. This will mean that in future only those students whose natural bent inclines them to the special field will elect that field, which is as it should be. Incidently the whole approach to Literature is placed on a broader basis. Another very healthy and hopeful sign in the new plan is that the main emphasis is laid on the student's showing in the examinations written and oral and no longer...
...February 7, the members of the clubs will assemble at the Union to elect new members. Plans and arrangements for the next Christmas trip will also be discussed then...