Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single campaign speech, might well attract U. S. attention. Instead, last week, while the final Argentine ballots were being counted, eager U. S. citizens were snapping up in best selling quantities a book called The Road to Buenos Ayres.* The snappers neither knew nor cared about Argentina's President-Elect; but they eagerly scanned the new best seller because it tells how exceedingly women of the class called "White Slaves" flourish in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina...
...balmy, fair and germinal-a day appropriate for dalliance, or at worst for relaxation. Therefore, the practical citizens of France bustled forth in unusual numbers to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies...
Paradoxically, not even this last and touching story availed to elect Paul Painleve last week, though he will have another chance at the forthcoming second poll. The fact that the enormous number of 3,712 candidates were seeking election to the scant 612 seats in the Chamber meant inevitably that many strong candidates failed to poll a majority. Among these was famed Louis Lucheur, Finance Minister in 1925, and "the richest man in France...
Last week, to Mr. Keller, there came a new promotion. The directors of the Manhattan Ritz elected him to succeed Duncan G. Harris as president of the New York Company of the Ritz Carlton Hotel Corporation. The directors who elected Mr. Keller to his new eminence were, without exception, gentlemen of ritzy appearance; all are listed in the Social Register; three of them were: George McAneny (architecture), Frank Presbrey (advertising) and Whitney Warren (architecture). The chairman of the board of directors is perhaps the most socially elect among their number. He is Robert Walton Goelet, who belongs to 19 clubs...
...Duncan, Springfield centerfielder, is a four letter man and a captain-elect of basketball. He is a first rate hitter and an excellent fielder, so good, in fact, has his record been that there is a rumor current to the effect that Duncan has had offers from several-major league outfits...