Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate case against Mr. Vare goes' back to his large campaign expenses in the Pennsylvania primary of 1926 and his election that autumn. Mr. Vare remained last week a Senator-elect, a Senator-suspect, a sick...
...Durant contest was Gifford Pinchot, dust-dry onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pinchot denounced the practice of allowing foreign diplomats to import liquor for diplomacy. Mr. Pinchot said also that only the influence of an ardently dry President can bring about national dryness. He considers President-Elect Hoover satisfactorily dry. He considers that Presidents Wilson, Harding & Coolidge were "apathetic...
...Washington official, recently passing the Irving Street Church, impressed with the fact that President-Elect Hoover will attend it, remarked to a member of its pastoral committee: "So this is Mr. Hoovers church...
...Iowa. Re-elected Governor John Hammill of Iowa helped keep supposedly embattled farmers in line for President-Elect Hoover. Having talked with Nominee Hoover on the latter's journey west. Governor Hammill took airplane, flew to Des Moines, told Iowa's Legislature that Mr. Hoover would certainly solve the farm problem (TIME, July...
...della Chiesa had delivered a striking address on the outbreak of the War, in which he insisted that the Holy See observe the strictest neutrality, yet make every effort to restore peace and mitigate suffering. The fine periods of that address were still echoing when the Cardinals met to elect a new Pope. Ten ballots were cast and as the smoke of their burning ascended from the Vatican, it was della Chiesa, not del Val, who experienced the emotion of becoming God's spokesman on earth...