Word: electoral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unable to square his own dentist for a federal job. The gentleman, Dr. Charles L. Singer, had been nominated to run the U.S. Assay Office in New York City, a $7,432.20-a year job traditionally earmarked for Tammany. Dr. Singer was deserving: he had twice been an elector for Franklin Roosevelt. He also knew what gold was; he had filled teeth with it. He was elated: "Imagine! A presidential appointment announced at the White House. It is quite an honor...
Meanwhile, in the capitals of every state, similar groups of electors gathered for similar ceremonies. In New York-as in other states which the G.O.P. carried-they were Republicans. New York's electors, who also posed for an official photograph, got a free lunch, free fountain pens and a chance to meet Governor Thomas E. Dewey.* In Democratic Tennessee there was a mild flurry of excitement. An elector named Preston Parks carried out a vow-and exercised his constitutional right-to vote for the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond instead of Harry Truman...
...Elector Parks's action changed the expected results by one vote-303 for Truman, 189 for Dewey, 39 for Thurmond. In each state the votes were bundled up and mailed off to Congress. There, on Jan. 6, they would be opened and counted. After that-and not before-Harry Truman would have been legally elected President...
...Columnist Leonard Lyons reported that on the way back from Albany, Elector Samuel Lepler said to Elector David Rockefeller (grandson of John D.): "Now I can say that you and I went to the same college together." Replied Rockefeller: "Oh, did you go to Harvard...
Professional politicians will not accept the Lodge Plan because it would take one form of patronage--the job of elector--away from the party faithful. And many Republican big shots are expected to fight the Plan because they like to receive large chunks of electoral votes from big Middle Atlantic states under the all-or-nothing system...