Word: elections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truthful declaration on the Cabinet members will be announced by me, and all other statements will be based on theory and conjecture." So said the President-elect, without in the least deterring theory and conjecture...
...Work again for Interior; J. J. Davis for Labor; one of three Juliuses-Klein, Barnes, Rosenwald -for Commerce; some midwesterner for Agriculture, perhaps Publisher Dante Melville Pierce of Des Moines-so ran theory and conjecture. A "truthful declaration" was not expected for some time, perhaps not until the President-elect's return from South America (see page...
...Vice President-elect had not, of course, hurried to Washington to ask the Vice President for his gavel or for parliamentary pointers on how to preside over the Senate. For the gavel Senator Curtis can have no use until the business of the Short Session is completed and he has resigned as Senator and has been inaugurated. For parliamentary pointers the Senate's new president, who has ruled over its Republican half since the death of Henry Cabot Lodge (1924), has about as much need as a grandmother has need for instruction in baby-washing...
...figure with whom the new Republican leader will not have to deal, because he was elected only to fill out a dead man's term ending March 4, is New Mexico's Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo. Born nearly 70 years ago in Chihuahua, Mexico, Senator-elect Larrazolo came to fame by the escalator system of teaching school, clerking in courts and a district attorneyship. He was Governor of New Mexico...
...pledge to President-elect Herbert Hoover the untiring support and earnest prayers of Methodists throughout the land to the end that the will of the people directed against the age-old evil of drink shall prevail...