Word: electoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Heidelberg University was erected on a foundation of race persecution when, in 1386, Elector Rupert I of the Palatine seized from Heidelberg's Jews a group of dwellings to house his new Collegium Artistarum. Reversing its position three centuries later, Heidelberg offered sanctuary to a hounded Jew, celebrated Philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Last week Heidelberg's plans for its 550th birthday celebration in June went notably awry because sister institutions throughout the world believed that Heidelberg had taken up Jew-baiting once again, lost caste as a centre of intellectual liberality...
...Grand Elector Max has succeeded in creating Danubia out of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Upon an economic stage set with starvation wages and rock-bottom farm prices steps a new Messiah. He is Johann Zimri, son of a Hungarian plumber who combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah...
When Magda, the ex-mistress, shoots Elector Max, Zimri's Brotherhood of Man seems about to triumph, for the Minister of Agriculture becomes dictator and summons the Zimri group to power. But after the followers of the late Messiah get one good look at the clever plan of attacking Italy, they turn sternly from peace to war. A satire on the nature of power, Destiny's Man can be recommended to all surviving anarchists...
...Spanish-American War brought Browning, King contracts to outfit the entire Navy. The founder's youngest son, John Hull Browning, branched out into banking and railroads in New Jersey, was four times a Presidential elector. He died of apoplexy in the Erie Railroad ferry house in 1914, shortly before Browning, King began making khaki for the A. E. F. Another son, Edward Franklin Browning, was the father of Edward West ("Daddy") Browning, whose carryings-on with "Peaches" Heenan Browning made front page news in 1927. Before Depression Browning, King, whose stock is privately owned, had 31 stores and five...