Word: elect
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...wife. For diversion he took an interest in minor public enterprises. In 1913 he was president of Colorado Taxpayers' Protective League-in 1917, chairman of the Mountain division of the Liberty loan campaign. A Republican, he ran for the U. S. Senate in 1918. Anti-Wilson sentiment helped elect him. In 1924 the big Coolidge vote helped keep him in office...
...only government which does everything to assist the pre-Revolutionary persecuted and rightless nation of Jewry to better organize its life is the Soviet Government! It grants land to the Jews, provides them with tools in their new settlements and gives them rights equally with other nations to elect their own Soviet...
...business statesman." Viscount Rothermere has failed to get political preferment for his son, Cecil Harmsworth, from any of the old line parties, hopes to make the young man an Ambassador. Last week the Beaver-meres insisted that they would contest "more than 50 seats" at the next General Election. All political dopesters agreed that the effect of this would be to defeat Conservative candidates in constituencies contested by a United Empirist, and probably to elect the Labor candidates in such constituencies. In other words the new party will split the Conservatives, how disastrously it remains to be seen...
Every two years President-elect Chase will receive from the State Legislature ever $12,000,000 which he must spend wisely on the upkeep of 14 schools and departments, in addition to whatever appropriations he will be able to coax from purse-wary politicians to finance further pedagogical projects. There will be a faculty of some 1,400 teachers and research ers' to bully, cajole, flatter. Greatest trust of all will be a student body, 14,000 strong, which lives in 124 fraternity and dormitory houses, goes to watch "Big Ten" football games in a $2,000,000 cement basin...
Impartial observers agreed upon the significance of the Massachusetts by-election, predicted, among other things, that: the State would elect a Wet Democratic Senator and perhaps Governor next November; it would vote to repeal its local Prohibition enforcement law-a wet step toward defeating the 18th Amendment already taken by New York, Nevada, Wisconsin, Montana, Maryland; the November Congressional elections would disclose an economic unrest in the tall grass, due to industrial depression, far deeper and darker than G. 0. Politicians now dare admit...