Each state of the United States selects two senators to represent their states in the United States Senate. In 1913, the 17th Amendment[?] to the United States Constitution provided for the direct popular election of senators; prior to this, senators were selected by state legislatures.
... was already doccumented as in use in the United Kingdom as early as 1912.
Writers and artists in the United States such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Held, Jr.[?], and ...