Word: elected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rector-elect, St. Thomas' Church...
...capitals trooped the 531 U. S. citizens who alone among the 127,000,000 have the legal right to elect the President and Vice President of the U. S. Under a proposed amendment to the U. S. Constitution, long talked of and again being agitated by Senator George Norris of Nebraska, this right would be taken from them and given to the people. But long ago the same unwritten Constitution of the U. S. which denies any President the right to more than eight years in office, deprived the electors of their power to vote anything save the popular conviction...
...full day's work they made: assembled in the State Capitol, elected temporary officers, adjourned, held a luncheon, reassembled, elected James W. Gerard their president. No little X's did they have to make on roughly printed ballots. Their ballots were handsomely engraved in exactly the same style as the ballots used in New York to elect Grover Cleveland 52 years ago, saying simply "For President of the U. S., Franklin D. Roosevelt of the State of New York," "For Vice President of the U. S., John N. Garner of the State of Texas," and since State officials...
...Topeka, Kansas' Electoral College cast nine printed slips into a yellow cardboard box for Roosevelt & Garner. Present was Democratic Governor-Elect Walter Huxman, not present was Alf Landon who had certified the results in advance. Said Kansas' Republican Secretary of State Frank J. Ryan (reelected in November on a platform of "I want the job: it pays well") as the electors filed out: "God be with you till we meet again, but I hope it will not be under the same circumstances...
...merry at the first "Nick Roberts' Old Yale Barn Party" staged since 1933 after the custom inaugurated by Yaleman Nicholas Roberts, onetime head of defunct S. W. Straus & Co., Manhattan bondhouse. The Yalemen cheered peptalks by Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, Captain Lawrence Morgan ("Larry") Kelley and Captain-elect Clinton Frank, sang Boola, Boola under the direction of Radio Singer Lancelot ("Lanny") Ross, 1927 Yale track captain. The Montclair Yale Bowl awarded annually to the Yaleman "who has made his Y in life," first won in 1926 by Pennsylvania Railroad's late President William Wallace Atterbury, went...