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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventy-two percent of the 466 ballots cast were unanimously in favor of all six proposals. The changes automatically make the sophomore member of student government chairman of the electoral committee and reinstitute the pre-war post of sub-treasurer. A more direct method of referendum also won approval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Votes for Constitution Shift | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

Just before the polls opened on election day last November, a Republican challenger picked up a ballot box in a Bourbon County, Ky. precinct, shook it, and heard a startling sound. Not a vote had been cast, but paper was rustling inside the box. It was opened. The rustle had been made by 17 fraudulent ballots. Investigators looked farther, found that boxes in ten other precincts had been stuffed too. Altogether, 254 phony ballots had been planted in the boxes. All but one were marked for Harry Truman and Democratic Senator Virgil Chapman (who carried the county...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Eruption in Bourbon County | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...cast features Shercliff as the Judge, Jean Daxter '52 as the Plaintiff and Dan McCook '48 as the defendant. Sam V. K. Willson '50 directs the show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Trial' Gets Extra Show Tomorrow | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...test of the year comes for the high-riding varsity, jayvee, and freshman crows this afternoon, when 11 top rowing colleges meet on Lake Onondaga at Syracuse to battle for the sprint championship of the cast...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crimson Crews Favored for Eastern Title | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...Italian film, "Revenge," now being shown at the Beacon Hill, is not cut from the same hearty fabric as were its illustrious predecessors from the country. Though it contains in its cast two of Italy's biggest stars, Anna Magnani and Gino Cervi, their talents can do little to redeem a weak and confusing plot, poor photography, a strident musical score, and the general low quality of the film...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Revenge | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

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