Word: elect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Witt Mitchell for Solicitor General to succeed James Montgomery Beck. So great and good an impression had Mr. Mitchell as the Government's chief advocate made upon the Supreme Court that its members were not backward in whispering his name again, this time into the ear of President-Elect Hoover, this time for Attorney General. Thus did Mr. Hoover "discover" Mr. Mitchell. They agreed on Prohibition and its enforcement by the Department of Justice. Mr. Mitchell's appointment as Attorney General followed. He listed himself an "independent Democrat" but he had voted for Hughes in 1916, Coolidge...
...Departure from New York to Mexico of a goodwill excursion of U. S. businessmen to attend President-Elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio's inauguration...
Instruction will be provided by W. B. Nelson '31, and the work will be entirely voluntary. Freshmen may elect this type of exercise to fulfill their physical training requirements. The step was taken by the H. A. A. in response to numerous requests...
Mexicans were gratified last week by the news from Washington that President-Elect Pascual Ortiz Rubio had been presented with a Doctor of Laws degree by George Washington University. After the ceremony conducted by Georgetown-President Cloyd H. Marvin, Señor Ortiz Rubio delivered in voluble if slightly uncertain English a few lofty sentiments; left on the morrow to inspect Niagara Falls...
...Honest Abe" as an evil Negro. In a delicate line drawing Volck depicted Lincoln as a Negroid puppet-master capering on a stage, surrounded by his puppets who are seen to be Cabinet Members Chase, Cameron and Welles and Generals Fremont, Scott and McLellan. When, as President-elect in 1861, Lincoln journeyed to Washington, receiving great acclaim in the northern cities, he was warned to forego a visit to Democratic Baltimore. Friends commissioned Allan Pinkerton, spy (later founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency), to investigate. His report influenced Lincoln to make no public appearance, to entrain quietly for Washington. Southern...