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...William, the Great Elector," Professor Fay, Germanic Museum Lecture Room...
...William, the Great Elector," Professor Fay Germanie-Museum Lecture Room...
Revered at Western Reserve (Cleveland) is the name of Charles Franklin Thwing, who became President nine years before Dr. Hadley headed Yale's executive and who retired, Emeritus, the same year (1921). He is now national President of Phi Beta Kappa, a Congregational minister, an elector of New York University's Hall of Fame, an experienced promoter of "floating" universities...
...began to dabble in Connecticut Republican politics. He went to national conventions, discussed high theories of government, served as a presidential elector. In 1922 he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut. In November 1924, he was elected Governor. A Connecticut vacancy in the Senate followed the suicide of Senator Frank Bosworth Brandegee. In December 1924, he was elected Senator. In January 1925, he was ceremoniously inaugurated Governor, resigned the next day to take his seat in the U. S. Senate...
...Labor Party's Daily Herald jubilantly took a different view: "In the political fighting of the future there will be no room for half-and-halfers! The elector will have to choose between the Labor Party standing for the interests of the common people and the reorganization of society, and the Conservative Party struggling to conserve the possessions of the rich and the maintenance of the old order. Against that inevitable tendency the Liberal Party dashes itself in vain...