Word: electorate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
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...
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...
...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...