Word: elected
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...politicians. In that machine-ridden State he won a following of Spanish-American voters, of War veterans, of political liberals, all of whose languages he spoke, whose interests he championed. Although a nominal Republican he fought and broke Albert Fall's Republican machine. In 1924 he helped elect a Democratic Senator, Sam Bratton, and in 1926 a Republican Governor, Richard C. Dillon. Following year Governor Dillon named him to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate. As a Republican Senator he fought the Hoover policies in Washington and the Republican machine in New Mexico. Having helped to elect Roosevelt...
Priest Coughlin thus pronounced himself a match for not merely one President but ten for he had already let it be known that he would be the sole head & front of the National Union. Last month he promised to "select, not elect" a guiding National Council of Twelve within ten days, to name the Union's Michigan State Committee at the Cleveland rally. He left Cleveland with neither a Michigan nor an Ohio committee named. He had decided meantime that the lieutenants of his political machine would, like Ku Klux Klansmen, be masked in secrecy. Reason, as explained...
Tired of being known only as "Brother Charlie," the late great William Jennings Bryan's brother got himself elected Mayor of Lincoln, Neb. in 1915, went on to become threetime Governor of Nebraska, Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1924. Last week in Lincoln, friends crowded around to congratulate the Mayor-elect. Most of them still call him "Brother Charlie...
That there is indeed a king of kings, though George V eschews the title, is never so apparent as when His Majesty draws to London the fabulous elect of India's native rulers, kings in their own realms. In wealth, sheer undevaluable silver, gold and gems, nearly every potentate in London last week surpassed George V. But there was the usual tendency in the English Press to outfable the fabulous. That potentate of potentates, His Highness the Maharaja of Patiala, Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes, was assumed to have taken a "whole floor" at the Savoy Hotel, assumed...
...committee, the first Album board to be elected in the spring of the Junior year under the new Student Council plan, will meet in a few days to elect a chairman and to draw up plans for the 1936 year-book...