Word: losely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Should a reapportionment of seats be made on the basis of the 1920 census without increasing the House membership above its present, cumbersome 435, the following States would lose seats: Missouri, 2; Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Mississippi, Nebraska, one each. That is the 2.75% error. Should the estimated census of 1930 be used, 23 seats would be involved, or 5.3% of 435. Losses then would be: Missouri, 3; Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, two each; Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, one each...
Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Washington, one each. In addition of course, these states would gain (and the others lose) a like number of votes in the electoral college, which chooses the President...
...Centrist parties which for years have held the balance of power did not materially gain or lose in strength last week. Therefore, they will be compelled by the sweeping Socialist gains to admit to power, at last, the Socialist party which has always been largest in Republican Germany but has generally been held down by a coalition of smaller rivals...
...Freshmen Lose to Yale...
...most crucial part of the season. Get behind the team and the team will never be behind Climb on the wagon and set sail for Cambridge on the morrow, not with an air of superiority or inferiority, but with the traditional spirit of this institution Holy Cross, win or lose, Holy Cross. Holy Cross Tomahawk