Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice, permanently ruin the prosperity of this country. There is a third group of voters who are convinced that the way to end inaction and corruption at Washington and to give to America the position which should be here in the councils of nations is to elect to the Presidency a man who has proved himself eminently fitted for the position. Mr. John W. Davis. Very truly yours, Geo. M. Kendall...
Declaring that it would be a national tragedy to elect a man whose party was mixed up in the oil scandals as was President Coolidge's, Professor Skinner of Tufts College, preceding the business meeting, flayed the older parties and painted a glowing picture of La Follette as the "men of the hour". He stated that like MacDonald in England, La Follette was the most despised man in the country during the war but was looked to now as the only progressive leader on the horizon whom the liberal forces of the country could follow...
...requirements, rigorous and even irksome, if you will, which temper the mind and test the souls of men!" At Amherst, Mass., Amherst College entered upon its 104th year with John Coolidge, son of President Calvin Coolidge, one of 210 freshmen with a few words from Acting President and President-elect George D. Olds, concerning changes in Amherst's faculty, curriculum, landscape. At Williamstown, Mass., the 131st year of Williams College began when President Harry A. Garfield opened a service in Thompson Memorial Chapel, reminded his hearers that each of them was a responsible part of the collegiate whole...
...widely conceded that the Reverend Bishop-elect possesses more scientific knowledge than any bishop or archbishop in the history of Christendom...
...Bishop-elect Barnes would probably say that the people who make the most Christ-like answer to the first question will not be bothered by the second...