Word: electoral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must have thought of the Knights of the Sword and the Teutonic Knights, who Germanized the shores of the Baltic, where the Hohenzollerns were to found their Kingdom, and of Friedrich Wilhelm, the Elector of Brandenburg, who helped bring about the Treaty of Westphalia after the Thirty Years' War that reduced Germany to ruin. It was Friedrich Wilhelm who started the Hohenzollerns on the road to the leadership of Germany, and his son, Friedrich I, who persuaded the Holy Roman Emperor to style him King in Prussia. Of Friedrich's grandson, Frederick the Great, the Kaiser must have...
Westminster College (enrollment: 317), an old Presbyterian institution, is politically-conscious beyond all proportion to its size. Its president is Dr. Franc Lewis ("Bullet") McCluer, a 1932 Presidential elector for Franklin Roosevelt. Since last fall he has welcomed to the college as speakers Republican Chairman John Hamilton, two Presidential hopefuls-James A. Farley and Paul V. McNutt. Also scheduled to speak there are Candidates Thomas Dewey, Robert A. Taft...