Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several representatives and other notables. Senator Copeland of New York, Senator McNary of Oregon, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, James W. Gerard, Brigadier General Herbert M. Lord (Director of the Budget), William Green (President of the American Federation of Labor), Major General John L. Hines (Chief of Staff), Mayor-elect James J. Walker of New York City, Senators Ferris, Fletcher, Robinson of Arkansas, Caraway, Overman...
...Mayor-elect James A. Walker of New York, who may certainly be classified as a Tammany bird, is among the earliest and perhaps most tactful. Last Tuesday in Atlanta, Georgia, he made a speech. Which is reported to have had a political flavor, as one might well have suspected. It is said that he eulogized his own little nest in New York and lamented that the other Democrats of the country had been so reluctant to accept an invitation to share it with him and his fellows. Reference was made, in the course of his speech, to a certain member...
...dresses stylishly. So many magazine writers do the same. There is little or nothing to distinguish one from another, and the differences among their respective works are equally invisible. Yet somehow the great public discriminates, and the reception Mother got in 1911 marked Mrs. Norris as one of our elect. To her ability as a straightforward, reportorial storyteller, she seems to add a blend of sentiment that is highly popular. This story is about a large Irish-Catholic family in San Francisco-the mother praying and dreaming about her "little angels," the boys getting jobs, the girls getting married...
...England sea captain, Edwin T. Nichols. He entered Harvard in 1895, and steered clear of most extra-curriculum activities while in college. He did win note as a boxer of merit, and to this day boxing has been the means of the Mayor-elect receiving his daily exercise...
...January 1, 1926, Mayor-elect Nichols will take office, and promises to reverse many of the policies advocated during the last four years by Mayor Curley...