Word: electoral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifty founders became United States senators, one representing Virginia and the other Kentucky. Two served as judges of the higher courts of Virginia, one having the unique honor, as presidential elector, of voting twice for Jefferson, twice for Madison, twice for Munroe, and once for John Quincy Adams 1787, who was the first Phi Beta Kappa man to become President of the United States...
...arbitrator [Mr. Coolidge] has said that the award makes ample provision for consideration by the Plebiscitary Commission of all questions involving the qualifications of voters and the prevention of fraud with a view to insuring every qualified elector the right to vote, and that the powers of the Plebiscitary Commission as provided in the award are ample guarantee to every qualified voter of full assurance that his vote may be freely cast and will be fairly counted...
...nominations shall be made as at present. Every elector shall vote for three candidates for marshals, indicating no preference for first, second, or third marshal. The candidates receiving the three highest total of votes shall be declared marshals...
...ballot for the second election, the names of three marshals shall appear. Every elector shall vote for one man for first marshal...
...Hohenzollern dynasty never desired world hegemony. Its scions did not even aspire to be masters of Europe in the approved Napoleonic fashion imitated by Poincare. Two Princes of the house of Hohenzollern, Frederick the Iron and the Great Elector, refused the throne of Poland, stating: "We are German Princes. It is difficult enough to rule the Germans!" (Here the ex-Kaiser sadly smiled.) 'We have no desire to rule the earth...