Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students at the famed University of Glasgow prepared to elect their Lord Rector,? no less a quipster than George Bernard Shaw drew his quill as an electioneer. To the Student Leader, a pamphlet issued by the Labor Club of Glasgow University, he contributed an article supporting for the rectorship his veteran friend of many Fabian battles, Sidney Webb,* sometime Labor Cabinet member and President of the Board of Trade. As the two other candidates were Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Gilbert Keith Chesterton, famed Author-Journalist, Mr. Shaw did not lack distinguished targets...
...some 200 miles into the interior of Africa, there are great jungles, and 2,000,000 Negroes and 120 white men. About 50,000 of the Negroes are civilized and run an independent sovereign republic and have done so for 78 years. They speak English. They elect a President, a Senate and a House of Representatives They have a Cabinet consisting of a Secretary of State, a Secretary of the Treasury, a Secretary of the Interior, an Attorney General, a Postmaster General, a Secretary of War and Navy and a Secretary of Education...
...system of having the Freshmen elect their own committeemen was inaugurated last year; in previous years the offices had been filled by appointment of the Student Council...
...House of Deputies, comprised of rectors and laymen, on assembling was obliged to elect a new President because the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann who held that post had been consecrated Bishop of Pittsburgh. So on the second day of the meeting, scheduled to last for 18 days, an election was held. The choice fell on the Rev. Dr. Ernest Wilmore Stires, who lately resigned as Rector of St. Thomas Church, Manhattan, and is now Bishop Coadjutor-elect of the Diocese of Long Island. The defeated candidate was Dr. George Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill., supported by much of the conservative...
Presiding Bishop. For 140 years there has been no elected Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. The Presiding Bishop has always been the senior Bishop (Bishop Talbot recently). In addition the National Council has chosen its President (Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, for the last six years). This year the Bishops will elect a Presiding Bishop who will likewise take over the duties of President of the Council, thus combining the spiritual and legislative functions. Considerable interest was displayed over the first filling of this new and important post. There were several candidates. Bishop Gailor was the most prominent. The others...