Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the U. S. people perform what they call "electing a President." That is the effect of their performance, but not the form. What they do formally is to elect an Electoral College, which casts the actual vote for a President and Vice President. This vote is cast on the second Monday in January. It is not counted and tabulated until the second Wednesday in February, more than three months after the result has passed into history...
...delegate to the Chicago convention, Mr. Whiting voted to the bitter end to head the ticket with Mr. Coolidge. Then, after Mr. Crane and Senator Lodge and the rest of the Massachusetts men had capitulated to the Ohio idea, Mr. Whiting pushed their man again for vice president. Mr. Crane was dour. "He's done," he said. But Mr. Whiting had distributed copies of Calvin Coolidge's essay "Have Faith in Massachusetts." Over he went and Delegate Whiting had the pleasure of voting to keep him over in 1924. In 1928 he was the last Massachusettsman to despair...
...fighter and lover that Biographer Nicholson makes his glowing portrait of Old Hickory. And there is in the drawing no chiaroscuro of virtue and vice. Just as Andrew Jackson believed a thing to be all black or all white, so he has been painted all whiteman. His fiery tempers are matters of righteous indignation; his gullibility a matter of holding a man right until he is proved wrong...
...Society of Jesus, founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, in the pontification of Paul IV and continued to the present, do, by the womb of the Virgin, the matrix of God, and the rod of Jesus Christ, declare and swear that His Holiness the Pope is Christ's vice-Regent and the true and only head of the Catholic or Universal Church throughout the earth, and that by virtue of the keys of binding and loosing given His Holiness by my Savior, Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose heretical kings, princes, states, commonwealths, and governments and they...
Close friend of President Graustein is President Frank D. Comerford of New England Power. Last week, New England's Comerford came to the board of directors of International Paper, joining a group of potent New York and Boston financiers. Among them: Frank N. B. Close (vice president, Bankers Trust Co.) ; H. C. Phipps (New York Trust Co.); Ogden M. Reid (president, New York Tribune, Inc.); John R. Macomber (president, Harris, Forbes...