Word: elect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Griggs, long a docile Dry, switched to Wetness just before the election, said that though he believed in Prohibition, he would vote to repeal the 18th Amendment if his district so desired. Obvious to all was his straddle. Mr. Granfield was 100% Wet. Republican Senator Gillett asked voters to elect Candidate Griggs as an endorsement of President Hoover. Democratic Senator Walsh asked them to elect Candidate Granfield as a repudiation of President Hoover's do-nothing policy on unemployment and industrial depression...
...banged out a 21-gun salute. Soldiers in black dress uniform snapped to present arms. Three bands simultaneously struck up the Himno Nacional Mexicano ("Mexicans! to the cry of war . ."). Detectives and police stalked up and down the rows of seats looking for possible assassins. Entered portentously the President-Elect, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, large-toothed and smiling, a green, white and red sash across his chest, accompanied by his predecessor, Emilio Fortes...
...condition there would be "no banquets, no drinks, no speeches," President Hoover last week promised to visit President-Elect Ortiz Rubio of Mexico at Mexico City. Date: indefinite...
Moscow's conclusion seems a mere deduction from the fact that U. S.-Mexican relations have not for a generation been so cordial as now. True, the President-Elect of Mexico, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, was accused of "going to Wall Street and Washington for his orders" when he paid his goodwill visit to President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 30), but there is no proof that he ever received any orders...
...Inauguration of President-elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio in Mexico City, to be attended by a large goodwill delegation of U. S. and other businessmen...