Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down from the snowy Andes to Buenos Aires rumbled a five-car train full of fully-armed Argentine soldiers. Behind, in a longer train, came the President-Elect of the U.S. If he gave thought to the soldiers ahead or to the "radical" bomb-plotters who had necessitated their presence, he did not show it. He gazed with placid satisfaction out of his car window at the Argentine's horizon-filling wheat ranches and pampas, at her myriad herds of kine and mutton...
...Hoover Cabinet was picked, it was reported, but would not be announced until a few weeks before inauguration.*Those weeks will be spent by the President-Elect on Belle Isle, off Miami Beach, Fla., in the mansion of James C. Penney, chainstore man, intimate friend. A proud parent, the city of Miami proper last week invited Calvin Coolidge to come there too, to stay permanently...
...Arkansas, the U. S. Vice-President-Reject, has ever received, was a letter which he gleefully showed to colleagues last week. The letter warmly, sincerely, personally thanked Mr. Robinson for "the cordial support you gave me in the campaign." It was signed by Charles Curtis, the Vice-President-Elect. Senator Curtis laughed as hard as anyone. No one in the Senate needed to be told how it is that such slips occur when one answers each & every one of one's congratulaters after an election by warm, sincere, personal form-letters...
...complete was the deadlock among factions that all possibility of obtaining a two-thirds majority to amend the Constitution in favor of a third term for President Hainisch quickly vanished. Preliminary balloting showed that the 91 Socialist votes were impotent to elect that party's hastily improvised candidate, Herr Doktor Karl Renner, onetime Socialist Chancellor (1919). Had the deadlock continued after the term of President Hainisch expired, last week, he would have been automatically succeeded by Chancellor Seipel, who would have become President ad interim. Above all Socialists did not want that. Therefore they abstained, 91 strong, thus permitting...
Hear read two telegrams, one from President Coolidge, one from President-Elect Hoover, complimenting the Federal Council...