Word: election
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have become stalled in its own dirt. Few who read the lead story in this issue of the CRIMSON will emerge from the maze of charge and counter-charge with more than an inkling as to what it's all about. In the first place only the most elect of the agricultural cognoscenti know where the Botanic Garden is and few but concentrators in horticulture can tell within a time limit of five minutes the difference between the Botanic Garden and the Gray Herbarium. But an understanding of these points is but elementary to an understanding of the present controversy...
Reason why five Europeans and one Asiatic will elect the two representatives of the U. S.: the Hoover Administration has negatived repeated proposals at Baden-Baden that the U. S. Governors should be named by the U. S. Federal Reserve Board. In thus eschewing even fiscal "entangling alliances" the U. S. keeps the freest possible hand, appears to have no fear that Europe and Asia will ever elect a Governor unacceptable to Washington...
Parliament met to elect the new Regent amid tensest excitement, for representatives of the majority Peasant Party had not yet been instructed for whom they were to vote. With a worried pucker in his brow Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu convoked his Cabinet for a last minute huddle behind locked doors. Several U. S. correspondents present bulletined to their editors: The likeliest candidate for the Regency is Queen Marie...
...Determine whether the rights of Hungarians left in Czechoslovakia after revision of the frontier could not be adequately safeguarded by allowing them to elect a representative who would serve with the rank of Minister in the Czechoslovak Cabinet...
Just before dawn, one morning a fortnight ago, all seemed quiet on the University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity cabal been challenged. But this fall, one John Granata, brother of Pete Granata, Chicago precinct captain in Morris Eller's "bloody twentieth" ward, had rallied about him the "barbarians" (non-fraternity men) to form an independent party...