Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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An attempt, however, at such direct handling has been made by the Yale student council recently in connection with the small vote east in the election of the committee which supervises the annual junior class dance. In the future at Yale all elections for committees in charge of traditional activities...
¶ Marine Corps average for the year was 17,983 enlisted men, 1,020 officers. Two thirds of this force was on expeditionary duty in Nicaragua, China, Haiti. Of Nicaraguan intervention Secretary Adams explained obliquely: "To carry out the agreement of the U. S. with the Conservative and Liberal forces...
"The charges made against me so preyed upon my mind that I trembled upon the very edge of eternity.† . . . I never stole an election. . . . How unfair and unjust my accusers have been in attempting to twist mere clerical irregularities and technicalities into acts of political fraud and conspiracy! . . .
"My God!" roared Clydeside John. "When I think of the speeches made at the general election by people [Laborites] around me now, the appeals to the class among whom I was brought up to put their faith in us-when I come here and have to listen to a Minister...
I sincerely doubt that the blame for the evident lack of interest in the recent election can be placed upon the shoulders of the committee in charge. Polls were held at two halls in the Yard and one in the Engineering School from ten until one o'clock. Was not...