Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University football players who played against Yale in the Bowl on November 24 will gather at the Varsity Club at 1.45 o'clock today to elect the captain of the 1929 eleven...
...Last June, a further change was introduced that tended definitely to the same end. At that time it seemed wise to the more experienced minds of the asembly to increase the membership from 45 to 65 from each class and to elect 25 of those men in June on the basis of definite achievement in directed effort or in other words on the strength of their Commencement honors...
...flown from the Atlantic to Bogota in eight hours, when the boat trip ($80) takes from eight to sixteen days, according to the state of the river. Only by air could Mr. & Mrs. Hoover drop briefly in on President Mendez-and no U. S. President or President-Elect since Theodore Roosevelt has made bold to enter an airplane...
They could obtain no instructions. The President would not receive them. When they called repeatedly at the Foreign Office, the Minister was always in conference. Therefore, last week, Delegates Alcorta and Costa mailed their resignations. Officially there was no explanation. Perhaps President-elect Hoover will ask President Irigoyen...
...tutor in Wall Street and the first of his grand associates. At the time when Manhattan light and transit interests were consolidated, he became the ally of Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, P. A. B. Widener, and had as counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable financial prodigies, the organization...