Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factor of variation in the latter is a maximum of 33 seats. The present composition is 51 Republicans, 43 Democrats, 2 Farmer-Laborites. In reality the division is about 42 Democrats, 42 Republicans and 12 Radicals. To have a majority (49), either of the major parties must elect a minimum of 7 more regulars than it now has from the 33 Senators up for election...
...contest does not mean that there will be three contenders racing neck and neck. It means that LaFollette will try to take enough votes away from the two Reading tickets so that neither Coolidge nor Davis will have a majority in the Electoral College. In that event the election will be thrown into Congress. According to the Constitution, the House of Representatives then chooses a President from the three highest candidates, the delegation of each state casting one vote. The result would be: 5 states tied and not voting; 21 Democratic votes for Davis; 22 delegations, nominally Republican (should vote...
...opening general meeting, Dr. William Allen Pusey, emeritus professor of diseases of the skin in the University of Illinois, was inaugurated, having been made President-elect at the San Francisco session in 1923. In his President's address Dr. Pusey attacked socialization of the medical profession. The ancient responsibility of the profession?treat-ing the sick and injured?rather than reforms by organization, wholesale medical programs and government spoonfeeding, was held up as an ideal. President Coolidge was commended by Dr. Pusey for his "wise statesmanship" in "taking a definite stand against federal support" of a wide range of socialized...
Captain Thurston, second baseman, is leading the team in batting with a .400 average, closely followed by Bjorkman, center fielder and football captain-elect, and first baseman Harris. The pitching laurels have been shared by Lyon, Edwards, and Barker. The first-named is the most likely to be in the box against the Crimson...
Edward Young Clarke, former Imperial Wizard Pro Tern of the Ku Klux Klan, appeared to testify in regard to the contested election of Senator Earle B. Mayfield of Texas. He testified that he had agreed with Dr. Hiram W. Evans, also of the K. K. K., that the Klan would do everything in its power to elect Mayfield and that Evans had said money must be no consideration...