Word: populi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election-first whisper of vox populi-was in New Hampshire. Only 11 delegates were involved, but all came out instructed for or partial to Candidate Hoover. Senator Moses, a charter subscriber to Hooverism, polled the highest vote. One Everett R. Rutter, the sole would-be-delegate in favor of Calvin Coolidge, was defeated. Only four years ago when Senator Moses refused to run as a Coolidge delegate he suffered the outstanding political defeat of his astute career...
Though the New Hampshire result was no more significant than any other accident of geography and the calendar; and although only 17 States hold primary elections; leaving popular choice elsewhere in the hands of convention floorwalkers; and although the next pronouncement of -vox populi, in North Dakota, was scheduled to be unanimously in favor of Candidate Lowden, still the first actual balloting in the 1928 election had gone Hoover. Voters talked about it in other States and told each other what they knew about the Republican party's man-of-all-work whose friends now think he should...
Since the public eye must focus on the "Peace of God," and since the vox populi must cheer him, Signor Mussolini withdrew the competition of his own presence. Having greeted the Amir at the station, Il Duce slipped out a side door, sped away down back streets in his bullet-proof limousine. Meanwhile Amir and King stepped into an open carriage. Outriders cracked their whips. The pageant moved...
...Constant Reader" is the busiest writer to newspapers among U. S. citizens. Other citizens-such as "Vox Populi" and "A Friend"- correspond freely with their editors. Last week another name, not wholly unfamiliar to readers of newspaper letter columns, appeared in the New York Times. This correspondent "ventured a modest demurrer" to a Times editorial belaboring the U. S. tendency to select its college presidents for various educational virtues-but not for scholarship. This correspondent gently pointed to President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard; to one-time (1899-1921) President Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale; to William Rainey Harper, first...
...Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book is simply what its author pleases the public shall read; and such is the nature of vox populi that hosannas are being sung...