Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible for the Electoral Votes of a State to be split...
...writing of the incomparable HELENA SPRINGER GREEN RASKOB (4 names-count 'em-and how you fellows fawn before wealth) you neglected to state that this prominent member of the nouveau riche is the wife of a man, who after growing rich under Republican regimes and policies, deserted his party SOLELY FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS. His talk about prohibition is THE BUNK. He obeyed his master the pope, in the same way that "Everything" Al would obey that master...
...never meets as a whole. Its members are not legally bound to carry out the voters' will. Its members are not paid for their important services, and since their names are noticed or remembered by very few voters, they are scarcely honored. Moreover, the electors of any State may be chosen by a minority of the voters of the State, yet the Presidential votes represent the entire State. Only a student of government or a thoroughly professional politician can explain what the Electoral College actually is and does, the reason being that it has been transformed from an important...
...Chairman of the Board of Anaconda, Copperman Ryan directs the affairs of the largest copper company in the world. Its assets total over $500,000,000, its working capital over $77,000,000. While Montana now yields first place to Arizona as a copper-producing state, the copper camp at Butte has disgorged one-sixth of all the copper mined in the world. And in 1922, Anaconda bought both the "biggest" American Brass Co. and, from the Guggenheim family, controlling interest in the Chile Copper...
...Jackson was quick to defend her honor, and his, in a series of duels. Gossip revived nonetheless every time Jackson ran for office-a frequent occurrence, for he was representative to Congress at Philadelphia (where as a Democrat he disapproved the aristocrat's salons), Senator, head of the state militia, President of the U. S. Election to this post he won chiefly by his spectacular defeat of the British in a campaign which he conducted with fury, picturesque oaths, and sound good sense...