Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppose that Andrew William Mellon entertains a doubt of the Republican party's ability to elect its carefully considered candidate, whoever he may be, is to suppose that a methodical mathematician would introduce an unnecessary variable into an important equation. To Mr. Mellon, politics is not a game, where chances are cheerfully taken, but a calculation, where chances are eliminated by careful thought. A final formula having been adopted, the factors necessary to make it work out are, so far as possible, obtained and introduced. Doubt is not a helpful factor where a positive result is desired. So doubt...
Germany will soon have a new Chancellor (Prime Minister). Name: Dr. Otto Braun. Party: Socialist. Present occupation: Prime Minister of Prussia. Characteristics: bald, preacher-like, thoughtful, sarcastic, stern. Famed? Yes, because in 1925 German Socialists cast 7,785,678 ballots in an unsuccessful attempt to elect him president...
President-Elect Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen (TIME, May 21) increased the general discontent by announcing that after his inauguration, next October, he will put into effect a "middle-age pension" law designed to permit toilers to retire at the approximate age of 45. This Utopian piece of legislation has actually been on the statute books since the last Presidency of Dr. Irigoyen (1916-22) but has never come into effect, due to the opposition of President de Alvear...
Therefore stern, close-lipped President-Elect Irigoyen was thoroughly vexed, last week, and perhaps slightly perturbed at the effect which The Road to Buenos Ayres may have upon U. S. friendship for Argentina. None knows better than "Boss" Irigoyen how much truth is in the book; for as a youth he was a Police Captain in Buenos Aires (1873) and later Chief of Police...
...dogmatic solution of the problem is far from the author's intent. "Oliver Cromwell," he says in closing, "had set out with the high profession that he would save the parliamentary liberties of Englishmen. That was his theory. In practice he never once allowed England to elect a free Parliament, and his only permanent legacy to the nation was a standing army. A fact like that cannot be fitly explained by the mere historian. It is a subject for a writer of great tragedy--or farcical comedy...