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...these two infractions, Watson immediately ordered the club to cancel a talk by Oliver Allen, Chairman of the Massachusetts Progressive Party, scheduled for that evening. He later reversed his decision, when convinced that the club had made a "conscientious effort" to obtain the required advisers. Watson, however, warned that the H.Y.P. might eventually have to disband over the issue...
After the meeting Tobin said he has invited Governor Dever to speak to the Young Democrats Friday but indicated he might ask Dever to cancel the speech. In the meeting, the members had voted to go ahead with plans for the speech...
...button-wearing Democrat and the outraged Republican pretty much cancel each other out in their dogmatism, and this leaves those much-abused voters, dubbed "independents," to choose which candidate will be successful...
...after the 1948 election, Editor Henry P. Slane of the daily Peoria Journal (circ. 68,000) sent Pollster George Gallup a bristling telegram: CANCEL OUR SUBSCRIPTION. Like Gallup, Elmo Roper, Archibald Crossley and all the pollsters who had confidently predicted a Republican victory, Editor Slane had a morning-after headache. With the editors of some 30 other U.S. dailies who canceled their subscriptions to the polls, Editor Slane cried: "Never again!" But like many another swearing-off, it didn't take...
...when it becomes time to vote, a failing which curls the mouth of the machine politician into a broad smile, Perhaps the trouble lies in reasoning that one vote counts little: I wont' vote for X, reasons the stay-at-home, and Jones won't vote for Y; we cancel each other out. But while stay-at-home and Jones are listening for election returns, wellcoached interest groups are punching away in the voting booths, grinding out a victory over the disinterested...