Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large fortune on a new political machine largely recruited from the Spanish-American population. Later accused of buying the vote, he muffled his critics by inviting investigation, then remarked: "The purchasable vote in New Mexico is not nearly as large as most people think." Nominally Republican, he helped elect a Democrat to the Senate in 1924. This move so blurred the State's party lines that when in 1927 the Governor appointed Mr. Cutting to an unexpired term in the Senate, local politicians resolved themselves into pro and ante Cutting factions. In 1928 he was elected for the full...
There was cold comfort in the thought that, if elected, Mr. Sinclair would not have a legislative majority at Sacramento to execute his ideas. Under Republican Hiram Johnson, California enacted in 1911 the system of initiative & referendum. To initiate any legislation, all that is required is the mandate of 8% of the voters in the previous election. Mr. Sinclair, his eye already on this device, estimates the required number at 160,000, which he can drum up in a week by ordering each of his 1,000 EPIC clubs to get the signatures of 160 voters. He is confident that...
...long time since I have attended one of Congressman Treadway's delightful luncheons. I little knew as I traveled from Northampton how grand it would be to be with you and know how faithfully you are working to elect the splendid men on our Republican ticket. ... I know that on election day the sun will shine on our great State as the Republicans come back into power...
Chosen chairman of the National Industrial Recovery Board was its seventh member-Samuel Clay Williams. (So hurriedly had the board been recruited that when their first meeting was called to elect the chairman, Messrs. Williams, Hamilton and Whiteside had to cast their votes by long distance telephone.) Last spring Mr. Williams retired as president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels) to become an industrial member of the National Labor Board and, later, head of the Advisory & Planning Council. A big man with a soft North Carolina drawl and the best business manners in his State, Mr. Williams took...
...years handsome. 73-year-old Sir Stephen Henry Molyneux Killik. London Alderman, stockbroker, author and Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Fanmakers, has known that last week he would either be dead or Lord Mayor-elect of that square mile of London called "The City." By venerable tradition the Senior Alderman must be elected Lord Mayor, provided he has served one year as Sheriff of London...