Word: electioneers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago. In the city whose name has been a synonym for social war and political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage. Deneen and his candidate, Judge John A. Swanson, survived bombs exploded on...
* The Congressional districts of most states are anachronistic. Instead of redistricting themselves as their populations have grown, the States have been allowed, since the reapportionment of 1842, to elect new Representatives allotted to them "at large," i. e. by statewide instead of district vote. The present ratio of representation is...
France goes to the polls, this week, to elect the 14th Chamber of Deputies of her present Third Republic. As happened in 1924, when the 13th Chamber was chosen, the Prime Minister who now faces the country is again M. Raymond Poincaré, 67, brisk, snowy haired, charming of manner...
New-Old System. This week French voters will thankfully resume the simple system of balloting which sufficed them before the War. In the 1924 election they were mystified by the so-called scrutin de liste, a well meant but inexplicable procedure which was supposed to ensure by mathematical proportioning a...
Champions. Astute M. André Geraud, famed as Pertinax, leading Parisian journalist-oracle, has said of the present election: "Socialism would appear to be the principal issue . . . or rather, the battle will be fought between the uncompromising opponents of socialism and the people who halfway disapprove of it."