Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social color in her visit. Lady Astor, as every one knows, is a politician. She was England's first lady of Parliament. Her sister, Irene Langhorne (Mrs. Charles Dana) Gibson, has been striving to reinstate the Democracy through the instrumentality of the Brown Derby, bold modern symbol of the Jefferson ethos. Though she was far too discreet to lend herself overtly to the Smith campaign, Lady Astor became part and parcel of one of the strangest Presidential years in U. S. history?as her astute sister had doubtless planned she should. There were no speech-makings, no obvious handshakings...
...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, in the House, because, though it had been agreed that Burr was the Vice Presidential candidate, no distinction was provided for in the balloting. The 12th Amendment, passed in 1803, ratified in 1804, required the members of the Electoral College (or of the House if the election...
...party which elected it and shift or split the State's electoral vote. Such an event is almost unthinkable, party politics being what they are. No elector has dared or chosen to break his pledge since 1796 when Samuel Miles, a Federalist elector in Pennsylvania, voted for Thomas Jefferson instead of John Adams. Faithless Elector Miles is unique...
...succeed Jefferson Caffery, resigned, as U. S. Minister to Salvador, President Coolidge appointed Warren D. Robbins, counselor to the U. S. Embassy at Rome. To succeed Charles S. Wilson, transferred (te Rumania), as U. S. Minister to Bulgaria, President Coolidge appointed Hans...
Postmistress Hattie Giddings of Doles, Ga., said that before and after Benjamin Jefferson Davis, Negro Republican, got her her post, she was requested to give money...