Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shoes of Dr. McConaughy. When they did he turned out to bo Albert Britt of Manhattan, for 14 years editor of Outing, for the past year and a half an editorial standby of Publisher Frank A. Munsey. Thus it came to pass that there was another editor-president.* President-elect Britt's qualifications were enumerated: his age, 52; his Illinoisian background-born in Utah, Ill., schooled in Galesburg and at Knox itself; his wide experience and acquaintance in business and literary circles; his "unusual sense of humor"; his information on and enthusiasm for College athletics; his conception of these...
President Edward A. Birge (in efect) : "This will shut the university off from higher education.* It is not fair to my successor, President-elect Glenn Frank, for it commits him to a policy about which he knows nothing...
...announced from Cincinnati that Nicholas Longworth, Speaker-elect of the House, had bought the Robert B. Roosevelt* house at No. 2009 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, would move in this fall...
...triumph of the new Senator was not unclouded; for shortly after the election he was informed that Mme. Caillaux, slayer* of Editor Calmette in 1914, had been severely hurt (dislocated hip and broken kneecap) when her automobile skidded into a tree on the way from Mamers, where the Caillaux estates are situate, to Le Mans, capital of the Department of Sarthe. Her first words on recovering consciousness were : "Was Joseph elected?" Apprised of the result, she uttered a cry of joy and was whisked off to a hospital, where an operation was performed. Senator-elect Caillaux rushed to his wife...
Died. George B. Churchill, 59, U. S. Congressman-elect from Massachusetts; in Amherst, Mass., of ulcers of the stomach. He graduated from Amherst College two years before Calvin Coolidge entered as a Freshman. He was a professor of English Literature at Amherst when elected, last November, to succeed Frederick H. Gillett, who was elected Senator. He had not as yet taken his seat in the House...