Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Governor Hughes is not running for President? Why didn't he take that nomination? He is doing more work to elect the Republican President than the nominee himself...
Pertinent in this connection is the fact that last week the Mexican Ministry of Education put on the air* from Station XFX the notorious assassin José de León Toral, who recently shot General Alvaro Obregon, national hero and President-Elect of Mexico (TIME, July...
...subscribers preserve this copy of TIME. On Election Day, having cast their votes, taken their holiday, dined and turned on their radios, let them use the blanks below for predictions, wagers or alert tabulation. There are 531 electoral votes. It takes 266 to elect...
...Committee of nine men will not elect a chairman from the Freshman class but will retain Harper as chairman. When a president of the class is elected later in the year with other officers who may take over the duties of the committee, the councilmen will confine themselves only to the activities within their own dormitories. No proctors will be included in the membership of this temporary Executive Council...
...through a lane of approving smiles, nor was there handclapping, for the beating of palm upon palm, except as a signal to acolytes, is neither rubric nor good taste at a church ceremony. When it came time for the House of Deputies (lower legislative house of the convention) to elect a president, only three ballots were necessary to affirm the election of the Rev. Dr. Ze Barney Thorne Phillips, chaplain of the Senate, rector of Washington's Epiphany. Dr. Phillips is a liberal evangelical, is a compromise president, for he is pleasing to the liberal (quasi-Roman) high church...