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Prohibited. In Boston, the Massachusetts Secretary of State's office discovered that Charles E. Clark, named a Presidential elector on the 1944 Prohibition Party ticket, had been dead three years...
...welfare was not alone involved. This critical midnight meeting was a clash of old friends and teammates, of politics and ambitions. Churchill had the returns on his fight with the House of Commons (TIME, April 10). They were neither pretty nor comforting. Testily said the Economist: "For every one elector who two months ago . . . doubted whether Mr. Churchill is the man to lead the country in peace as well as war there must now be three or four." It was no time to endanger already damaged leadership by announcing Eden's departure from Foreign Office and War Cabinet...
...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...
...plans had been divulged. One of Europe's newest capitals, Berlin's history even as an insignificant village dates back only 700 years as compared to London's 2,000, Paris' 2,050 years. Development of Berlin began seriously only with the Great Elector of Brandenburg, who before his death in 1688 had raised the city's population from 8,000 to 20,000 mainly by offering asylum to political and religious refugees. In the early 18th Century, Soldier-King Friedrich Wilhelm I put heart and soul into making Berlin a fitting capital of Prussia...