Word: stated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certificate of the electoral vote of the State of Alabama seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears therefrom that Alfred E. Smith received 12 votes for President and Joseph T. Robinson received 12 votes for Vice President...
This formula was followed through the 47 other States, alphabetically, Senator Shortridge's sepulchral voice brought an impertinent clamor of "Louder." Rhode Island's full name-The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation-was carelessly omitted. Mr. Gifford modified the formula when he announced that Massachusetts "seemed" to have gone for Smith. "Whoopee!" cried the Democrats. A Republican rebel yell punctuated the Texas and Virginia votes...
...Herbert Hoover, for President, 444 votes; Alfred E. Smith, 87 votes. Charles Curtis, for Vice President, 444 votes, Joseph T. Robinson, 87 votes. This announcement of the state of the vote . . . shall be deemed a sufficient declaration of the persons elected President and Vice President of the United States...
Highway traffic, like many another thing, follows the cheapest route. Operators of the New Orleans-Pontchartrain toll bridge have made this unhappy discovery. The great span was born under politics, and politics in the form of free state ferries across the lake, caused its financial demise. This month, after a year's profitless operation, it went quietly into bankruptcy, unable to meet interest charges on its $5,500,000 construction cost...
...political campaign was begun for free ferries and a free bridge. Gov. Oramel Simpson campaigned for re-election on a free-bridge platform. So did Huey P. Long. Long won. Gov. Simpson, retiring, threw the free ferries into cut-throat competition with the private bridge, pending construction of a state bridge on which no tolls would be charged. Under Gov. Long the state bridge is almost finished...