Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumor (more or less verified here) is that the interests behind Smith stand ready to spend $100,000,000 to elect him by foul means or fair, but it is not believed that that amount of money can buy the self respect and conscience of America. It's a dirty business they're engaged in and I regret to see a magazine I once admired collaborating with men determined to buy the Presidency of my country...
Quadrennially, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the U. S. people perform what they call "electing a President." That is the effect of their performance, but not the form. What they do formally is to elect an Electoral College, which casts the actual vote for a President and Vice President. This vote is cast on the second Monday in January. It is not counted and tabulated until the second Wednesday in February, more than three months after the result has passed into history...
...Labor was the shrewd purpose of Senor Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama, leader of the rival Agrarian Federation, when he presently declared: "There isn't a man, woman or child in all Mexico who accepts the official charges that the Catholic clergy inspired the assassination of President-elect Obregon. Everybody knows Morones did it. Morones must go, or President Calles's administration will forfeit the confidence of the public...
Died. General Alvaro Obregon, 48, President Elect of Mexico; by assassination; near Mexico City...
Said F. H. Shera, Professor-elect at Sheffield University: "Upon whose head and upon what country can the blame be laid for the invention of the saxophone? ... I am afraid that the great American Nation was responsible...