Word: electoral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election followed a centuries-old formula. For four days electors were confined to the Society's headquarters at the Borgo Santo Spirito. When election day came, they attended a 5:30 Mass of the Holy Ghost, then, wearing their plain black robes, filed into the Hall of Elections. After an exhortation on the qualities most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped...
...leader chosen, a messenger sped to bring the news to the Pope. Each elector kissed the hand of the new General in sign of obedience, and the doors were flung wide to reveal to outsiders the new leader: Father John Baptist Janssens of Belgium, a Jesuit since 1907; tall, thin, pale, ascetic, 56-year-old ex-professor of canon law at Louvain University, later head of the Jesuit province of Northern Belgium...
This is the constitutional law. It is only by sanctified custom that the Presidential electors have come to vote by states for their party's choice. Nothing in the Constitution actually so binds the elector; he may legally use his best judgment in selecting the best men-nominated or not -for President and Vice President...
Prohibited. In Boston, the Massachusetts Secretary of State's office discovered that Charles E. Clark, named a Presidential elector on the 1944 Prohibition Party ticket, had been dead three years...
...welfare was not alone involved. This critical midnight meeting was a clash of old friends and teammates, of politics and ambitions. Churchill had the returns on his fight with the House of Commons (TIME, April 10). They were neither pretty nor comforting. Testily said the Economist: "For every one elector who two months ago . . . doubted whether Mr. Churchill is the man to lead the country in peace as well as war there must now be three or four." It was no time to endanger already damaged leadership by announcing Eden's departure from Foreign Office and War Cabinet...