Word: electioneers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Of all the dapper gentlemen, none was more inspired and self-confident than Arnold Rothstein, a sleek Jew inclining to flesh in his late forties. Hotel managers fawned on him, because he owned a hotel himself. Newspaper editors disliked to call him "gambler" when he got into the news. The...
Most of the Rothstein enterprises were deep in debt. His election bets were calculated to pull him out of a bad hole. Necessarily, he was slow about taking up his IOU's. The trouble was, he had been slow that way before. His tongue could be as sharp in...
Guy Constant Holbrook, Jr., '30, of Clifton has been elected president of the Junior class according to the election returns given out last night by W. R. Harper '30, retiring, president of the class. Holbrook prepared at Newton High School and has been prominent in Harvard athletics as center on...
The elections were carried on by mail and were conducted according to the preferential method which gives the election to the man with the lowest total in each case.
Americans may be inclined to smile at the ways of polities in Mexico, where public opinion shifts with every duel. But here in politically-wise New England Massachusetts has supplied the nation with a Republican President; nevertheless in his party's year of triumph she votes for Al Smith and...