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...Institute of Technology, Haverford, Ohio State, University of Alabama, Wittenberg College, University of Idaho. It was promptly refused by Dartmouth, Carnegie Institute of Technology, the Universities of Virginia, Vermont, New Hampshire and the College of the City of New York. Princeton, which like Gottingen was chartered by George II, Elector of Hanover and King of England, joined Yale in deciding to send only a message praising Gottingen's past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Gottingen Bids | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Having been certified by the Democratic State Convention and duly elected a Presidential elector from Ohio, Alton H, Eppley of Orrville was discovered by Ohio's Secretary of State to be nonexistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Elected when his name was left on the ballot by error after he had refused to be a candidate, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, 62, resigned as Democratic Presidential elector from Pennsylvania "to make way for the younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...like Colonel Knox and Chairmen Hamilton cannot be accused of the naivete of Hearst, and their irresponsible impeachments must be taken soley as a screen to hide their own mediocrity. The importance placed by the National Chairman upon David Dubinsky's position as an elector for the President is a Republican jest even funnier than most when one considers what the American eletoral college has long since become...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON FENCE | 10/8/1936 | See Source »

...British Labor party made such a poor showing in that election because they allowed themselves to be maneuvered into such a position on foreign policy by the Conservatives that the issue became muddled, and the elector are was unable to think the matter through clearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laski Declares in Favor of Peaceful Transition to Socialistic Democracy | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

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