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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Constitution assigns to each State the same number of electors as the State has Congressmen. When electors were first chosen by popular vote, many a Legislature provided that people should vote for two electors at large-corresponding to their Senators-and one elector from their Congressional district, corresponding to their Representative. But as party politics developed, it was discovered that a State's importance in national politics was emphasized if all its electors could be won by one party or another. Thus came the final transformation and the practice that is universal today. In each State, each party names...
...There is a popular belief that Prohibition was imposed upon the country during the War, while a majority of our voters were unable to register their disapproval. But the plain facts are that more than two-thirds of the local option districts of the United States were dry long before the war and that the dry Federal Act was but the national and natural expression of that dry local option majority. The people of these same districts are still dry and are not going to change constitution or legislation until they have lost faith in Prohibition as a remedy...
Some such scheme appeared to have been employed shrewdly in behalf of Robert M. Leach of Taunton, Mass. He manufactures cookstoves (Glenwood Range). He wanted the G. O. P. to nominate him for Lieutenant-Governor. Seven other men wanted the nomination, a popular one nowadays perhaps because the Massachusetts Lieutenant-Governorship is one of the offices by which Calvin Coolidge came to fame...
Maurice Bokanowski was born in Havre, but spent his childhood in Toulon, French naval base, where his father made a fortune in department stores. Admitted to the bar when comparatively young he soon became one of the most brilliant, popular and highly feed lawyers in Paris. Originally of radical sympathies he became more and more conservative. His career in many respects was not unlike that of ex-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. Grateful Parisians will remember him as the man who modernized their sadly inefficient telephone system...
...marshes. Its head is extraordinarily large, topped by a little curled tuft. The eyes scowl, when seen from the front, stare brightly in side aspect. Queerest is its great bill, which clacks-clacks hollowly when the bird gapes or preens itself. That bill closely resembles a shoe (whence the popular name "shoe-bill") or the head of a whale (hence the scientific name Balaeniceps...