Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hanover, home of the President-elect, a torrent of letters and telegrams, many from U. S. business men, swamped the post office and almost drowned the aged Field Marshal with congratulations. Chancellor Hans Luther was an early caller and, after a short interview, followed by a consultation with his colleagues, he announced in the Reichstag that his Cabinet would remain in office...
...Wilhelm Marx, ex-Chancellor, leader of the Catholic or Centre Party and the defeated Republican bloc Presidential candidate, sent his congratulations, accompanied by a long admonition to the President-elect to continue the Republican policies of economic restoration, democratic government, international reconciliation, peace, prosperity and reattainment of German world influence and position. The Field Marshal responded by thanking him for expressing the same sentiments that he would have expressed had Dr. Marx been elected, that he was proud to learn that Dr. Marx also stood for German solidarity and reconstruction and that he, too, was a man of principle above...
...decided that the Field Marshal's inauguration should take place on May 12. The President-elect appointed his only son, Major Oscar von Hindenburg, as his personal adjutant, and it was reported, but not confirmed, that he had asked Dr. Meissner, President Ebert's secretary, to remain in office. The aged soldier let it be known that he was opposed to any form of military pomp at his inauguration and that he would swear allegiance to the Constitution in civilian dress. He was, moreover, reported to have overruled his advisers by stating decisively that he would receive...
Came from Washington General Machado, President-elect of Cuba. Up went the blue and white stripes, the single star...
Stalin also promised the peasants equal representation with the town proletariat. At present, the peasants elect one representative to the local Soviet for every 40,000 inhabitants, while the cities elect one for every 25,000. Moreover, the peasants are eligible only for local office and are debarred from holding any of the higher positions. All this is to be changed and peasants, according to the authoritative word of Stalin, will in the future be eligible to hold the highest executive positions...