Word: elect
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Only two U.S. Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, ever made long tours of South America, and both trips yielded great dividends of good will. Hoover made his trip as President-elect, traveling by battleship (much against the wishes of outgoing President Calvin Coolidge, who tried to get him to go in a cruiser, because "it would not cost so much"). His reception in Buenos Aires was so tumultuous that the Argentine President had his tailcoat ripped up the back. Hoover also journeyed into Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, met Bolivian government chiefs on a U.S. warship in the Pacific...
...Council proceeded to elect Trodden vice-Mayor through some strange political maneuvering. On the first ballot, Councillors Cornelia B. Wheeler, Trodden, and Vellucci all received three votes...
Latest reports indicate that the city of Cambridge will not have a mayor tonight, despite a City Council meeting at 4:30 p.m. today, which has been called to elect...
...majority of five is needed to elect a mayor, although the city can function in the absence of one. Under Plan E, its executive department is run by a City Manager, responsible to the Council. While the stalemate continues, however, the Council cannot transact normal legislative business...
Incumbent Mayor McNamara voted to re-elect himself on all but the last ballot, when he chose Velucci. The latter voted for himself each time, and upon receiving Trodden's endorsement on the fourth ballot, jokingly declared: "It's the first time I even got two votes...