Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats had as much money as the Republicans, they would stop trying to elect a president, divide it up into shares, and celebrate...
...denouncer clearly meant bullnecked, heavy-jowled President Plutarco Elias Calles. When Senor Calles' term expires, in December, it is understood that he will become the Leader ("Boss") of the new "Grand National Revolutionary Party." This will reunite the national majority once dominated by the late, assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30); and therefore factional leaders see in the "Grand Party" the doom of their petty potency. "The Grand Party is being formed," thundered Factionist Soto y Gama last week, "solely to perpetuate the rule of Mexico's Idol of Flesh and Blood! ... I and my followers...
Since the election was held Vice-President-Elect Francesco Beiro has died and been replaced by Dr. Enrique Martinez. He and Dr. Irigoyen solemnly took their oaths of office last week in the Congressional Building, received a Congressional cheer, and then set off down the shaft of the dumbbell, flanked on either hand by deliriously joyful Fiesta throngs...
...President was not elected by the Chinese people. Most of them have never seen a ballot, and millions have never heard of one. The 17 years of political ferment through which China has passed since the collapse of the Manchu Empire in 1911, have left the nation with nothing so advanced as an electorate. Therefore Marshal Chiang Kai-shek was elected last week by the Central Executive Council of the Nationalist Party, to serve as "President of the Government." Not for a long, weary while will it be possible to democratically elect a "President of China." For the present...
President-elect (for 1929) of the American College of Surgeons is Surgeon General Merritte Weber Ireland of the Army...