Word: babson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite a bit of inside dope in my line, and I predict a photo finish. So long. I've got to go see a man about the north end of a south bound Percheron." Hu Flung Huey's Big Four Roosevelt over Willkie Saltonstall over Dever Harvard over Yale Babson over my dead body
...Freshmen were most productive of dark horses, but Leverett House achieved the largest total for any one of the unlisted candidates, giving 10 votes to Roger W. Babson as a hangover from the resent whirlwind ballot-battle of Prohibitionist. Henry H. Morgan '41 Babson's total in the entire University...
Norman Thomas polled 107 votes, getting most of his support from the Law School, the Freshmen, and Leverett, Lowell, and Adams House. Earl Browder was checked on 37 ballots, and Roger Babson got 22 votes, ten of them coming from Leverett...
Veterans and journalists have no reason to fear Browder. His chances of election are little better than those of "No Third Drink" Roger Babson, and the excuses of the group who retracted their names reflect more on themselves than on the Communist Party. Suppression of minority groups even by the American Legion has no excuse. We are not at war and there was no reason for the veterans' squeeze play. Far more dangerous than the Leftist groups, whatever their fondness for vodka, is a powerful organization getting set to protect America in the manner of Hitler's storm troops...
...votes, cast, Willkie received 44, Roosevelt 87, and Babson 89. Norman Thomas polled eight votes and John Zahnd of the Greenback Party had one supporter, while four were undecided...