Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Article II of the Constitution provided that the electors should be chosen as prescribed by the State Legislatures. Some Legislatures used to choose the electors themselves. Elsewhere the people elected them-a small group of known, trusted, respected men who were sent to the State capitals, where each man voted for two national candidates without indicating which candidate he wanted for President, which for Vice President. The election of 1800 was thrown into the House of Representatives because no candidate had a majority of electoral votes. Aaron Burr managed to delay the election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency...
...group of minor reporters one figure emerged as dimly familiar. The name, it seems is Grouse. He was greeted by a kindly burst of applause from a warm-hearted audience and he received at least one telegram from a former editor stating (we hope not ambiguously), 'Your work was unbelievable.' To this we may add that he gave the best back view of a city newsman ever presented in a ten-line part and in a five-minute big emotional scene with a ham sandwich...
...Cheney of Chicago, doctor of a discreetly unknown company, had acted far more drastically than Dr. Murray; at Minneapolis he had spoken far more emphatically. Said he: "More than 99% of our executives are troubled with constipation. ... I have also found in our group that lack of exercise is the most prolific cause of disease or ill health in our executives. If he would take a picture of the executives who are over 40, and show them how they look in silhouet in the nude, I think it would impress them. . . . I preach to them three things-posture, exercise...
Whom, for example, would a very wealthy and impudent plutocrat of Milwaukee ask to paint his features, should he want this done? He would ask Sir William Orpen, Sir John Lavery, Augustus E. John, or Ignacio Zuloaga: these, with a few others of less consequence, from a small group whose prices, higher than those of other portrait painters, average about $10,000.* Had the plutocrat desired last week to have his portrait painted, he would, if alert, have sent a cable to Augustus John for Painter John, after a frantic scurrying departure...
...group next turned to nitroglycerine, experimented for a month. Surreptitiously Carlos Castro Balda, ex-government clerk and Manuel Trejo, Laborite, entered the cloakroom of the Chamber of Deputies, placed there one of their concoctions. Later it exploded, but too late...