Word: electorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unpledged elector plan, aimed at loosing states from national party ties, is not likely to get very far. But it does call renewed attention to a wide spread feeling that the U.S. electoral college system, as set forth in the Constitution, is an anachronism. Under examination by the Kefauver subcommittee are seven proposed constitutional amendments for reforming the presidential electoral system. The main avenues of approach...
Sausages & Scholars. Göttingen's grandeur goes back to 1736. when Hannover's Elector George August, who also happened to be Britain's King George II, launched the university in a hamlet then so obscure that his courtiers at first thought he meant Gothenburg in Sweden. To publicize the place. George put the school in charge of an imaginative baron named Von Münchausen-a cousin of the famous liar. By 1770 it was Germany's most important university...
Chilled, he fell sick with acute laryngitis, died 48 hours later. - Elector William Plumer of New Hampshire cast his ballot for John Quincy Adams, who said the vote caused him "surprise and mortification." Plumer later explained that he felt the honor of unanimity should be reserved for George Washington...
...never mentioned nailing the theses on a door; the first record of the story, in fact, was written after the heretic's death in 1546 by his disciple, Philipp Melanchthon, who was nowhere near Wittenberg at the time. Iserloh also cites a letter Luther wrote to Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, in 1518, stating firmly that "no one knew of my intentionto dispute-not even my best friends...
...rulers of Europe faced a balance-of-payments problem, they turned not to economists but to alchemists, who always seemed to be just on the verge of discovering how to turn base metal into gold. In 1709, Johann Friedrich Böttger, an alchemist employed by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, hit upon something almost as good as gold: using wig powder as a base, he produced Europe's first true porcelain. To keep the secret, Augustus shut Böttger up in a dank castle in the Saxon village of Meissen and told...