Word: electioneer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The election of two Professors, and two Associate Professors, and the appointment of six Assistant Professors and one Clinical Professor was announced at University Hall yesterday. All except one of the elections or appointments were promotions within the Harvard Faculty.
Peace did not follow the election. Burkitt declared: "I am the most disappointed man in New Jersey." Said the Mayor: ". . . Deeply grateful . . . splendid vote . . . personal enmity . . . slanderers silenced . . . return to peace and prosperity."
Hague supporters rioted jubilantly in the streets. The Reform headquarters were raided and wrecked. The morning after election Burkitt called to congratulate a Hague police captain at his station. Leaping to his feet, the officer met his well-wisher with "Now you lousy faker, get to hell out of here...
At the base of Pike's Peak, last week, Bill Williams of Rio Hondo, Tex., started to nose-push a peanut. His purpose: To push it to the top. Mr. Williams acquired his nose-pushing habit last year when he lost an election bet on Alfred Emanuel Smith.
Such alumni pointed to Girard Trustee Francis Shunk Brown, an attorney who has often friended Pennsylvania's U. S. Senator-suspect William Scott Vare, and to Albert M. Greenfield, a realtor recently elected to the Board of Trustees. Realtor Greenfield has been a large contributor to Vare election funds...