Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There was no definite Cabinet news (see p. 9). Inauguration news, too, was sparse. The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had." At Tipton, Iowa, one John W. Reeder, 92, hoped that the ceremony would not be too simple. He had asked to be, and been promised that he might be official holder of the Hoover hat on March...
...David Lawrence, able publisher of the United States Daily, writing in the Chicago Daily News, retold an historic remark uttered in the winter of 1920 by President-elect Harding to his private secretary, George Christian. The Harding Cabinet was being selected, under much political stress & strain. The Christian-Lawrence version of Harding's remark: "George, I've just got a hunch that it's the best thing to do and a big thing to do -to pick Hoover. This fellow can be a big factor in a big constructive way in this reconstruction period...
...until the second Wednesday in February will the Hoover election be officially recorded by the formal counting of the votes of the Electoral College. Nevertheless, early on Nov. 7, Herbert Hoover & family were taken into safe-keeping by the Federal Secret Service. Chief William H. Moran presented himself at Palo Alto to acquaint the Hoovers with his plans for their protection. Two detectives followed the President-elect's first postelection stroll with Mrs. Hoover...
Further evidence of Republican confidence and forehandedness came with the announcement of the President-elect's preinauguration tour of South America, one continent where he has never been. Before leaving Washington, Nominee Hoover had asked President Coolidge for a battleship to go on. Last week the White House announced that the U. S.S. Maryland, new and fast, had been assigned. President-elect Hoover lost no time conferring with Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard (near San Francisco). The departure: at once, from San Pedro, port of Los Angeles, Calif. Probable itinerary: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia...
...President," mocked and cancelled by wind and sleet. Yet the Albanians were out to meet him in cheering, bomb-bursting thousands. Mayor John Boyd Thacher insisted on taking his arm through the crush, just as on triumphal occasions when the Brown Derby used to return as Governor-re-elect. Now he was President-reject...