Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thing to do, inasmuch as the present emergency passport legislation under which immigration is now controlled expires on March 4. The solution of such an important question as the admission of foreigners demands time for investigation and discussion; no doubt the present administration would gladly pass on to President-elect Harding the responsibility of determining our future policy in the matter. If Congress, with the immigration problems off its hands, could then accomplish something to relieve the taxpayers of the country, it will, at least, have discredited any assertion that it left undone everything of importance...
Vice-President-elect Coolidge will be present to represent the Commonwealth, the building having been originally constructed from a grant made by the Province of Massachusetts. President Lowell will also speak, and Judge Robert Grant '73, President of the Harvard Board of Overseers and author of "The Chippendales" and other novels, will read a poem composed for the occasion. The toastmaster will be Ron. William Caleb Loring '72, who roomed in the hall as a student...
General Obregon, the so-called President-elect of Mexico, a soldier by profession, was Mr. Carranza's right-hand man and most trusted adviser, until he chose to revolt against his chief, drive him from power and bring about his death. This fact is not very strange when we view it as a recurrence of General Huerta's famous coup d etat in 1913, when he overthrew the government of Madero and caused that President's subsequent overthrow...
...very best Cox can only annex 189 electoral votes while Harding is sure of 322 266 being necessary to elect. The "Solid South" on which Cox banked his strength, only netted him 186 votes, while from the start his opponent was assured of 253 from the Republican states...
...natural that recognition by the United States government should play an important part in the political and social rehabilitation of Mexico. The full protection of valid American interests in that country has been our primary concern. It has been promised by President do la Hueria and by President elect Obregon that these interests will be protected; and indeed the present government seems better qualified to make such a promise than any preceding government since the time of Diaz...