Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President-Elect planned to remain in Washington for about a week, then to depart for Florida and a final pre-inaugural vacation. He has engaged a suite at the Mayflower Hotel, and will hold conferences at his home and at the hotel. One of the first S Street visitors was Assistant Attorney General William J. Donovan. . . . When President-Elect Hoover becomes President Hoover on March 4 his age will be 54 years, seven months. He will be three months older than the average of all Presidents at the time of their inaugurations...
Prohibition. During the presidential campaign, President-Elect Hoover suggested that a committee be appointed to study and report upon Prohibition. Two resolutions dealing with this committee were introduced in the Senate. Senator Jones (Dry) of Washington, suggesting the appointment of a Senatorial Committee, Senator Edge (Wet) of New Jersey suggesting the appointment of nine civilians, to be named, after March 4, by Mr. Hoover. Later, Senator Jones agreed with Senator Edge that the membership of the committee should be left to Mr. Hoover's decision, thereby virtually withdrawing the senatorial committee idea...
...social functions in Louisville, in Washington, grimness mellows into dignity, and the pearls, uncovered, hang in a double strand of gleaming white. A friend of hers is Dr. Hubert Work, Republican National Committee chairman. Not a friend of hers is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Representative-at-Large-Elect of Illinois. She is Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, and she received last week a hearty endorsement-by-rumor to be the first woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet...
Finally Mr. Gilbert consented to observe that he would confer "quite unofficially" with President Coolidge and President-Elect Hoover in Washington, later rejoining Mrs. Gilbert at her home in Louisville, Ky., and returning with her to Europe in about a fortnight. To hotly pressed queries about Reparations, the Agent General answered repeatedly: "You'll find that in my report...
Golden Pens. At the close of the Conference, last week, the Pacts were signed with august pomp. As gold pens scratched and Ambassador bowed to Ambassador, the parable of "mother, father and children" seemed to evaporate and vanish. In the iridescent words of President-Elect Herbert Hoover, uttered at Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 31): "There are no young, independent sovereign nations, there are no older and younger brothers of the American continent. All are of the same age from a political and spiritual viewpoint, and the only difference between them is the different historic moment in their economic progress...