Word: elections
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...dull reading. So the Rhode Island general assembly passed it and the governor signed it without cracking all the pages. Last week there were a lot of red faces in Rhode Island. The bill wiped out the power of every city and town in the state to appropriate money, elect or appoint officials, make police regulations, hold property, construct buildings or license amusements...
...political engineer, he got Reformer Ellis Arnall elected against red-gallused old Gene Talmadge, then switched to elect Talmadge against Arnall's picked successor ("I wouldn't go along with him when he started registering all the niggers so I built up the picture for Gene"). When "Ol Gene" died, Roy engineered son Herman's attempt to snatch the governorship. He had gotten the poll tax repealed for Arnall; he got the white-supremacy primary passed for Herman...
Last week nine million West Germans in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia -which includes the Ruhr-went to the polls to elect a new state legislature. It was the second free election in Germany since the Nazis, and the quietest yet. By evening the voters, mostly miners and steelworkers, representing one-fourth of all voters in West Germany, had smashingly rejected both Communists and extreme right-wing Nationalist parties...
Died. Archbishop Ismael Perdomo, 78, political-minded Roman Catholic Primate of Colombia; in Bogotá. A conservative on most issues in his nation's fiercely partisan politics, Archbishop Perdomo sternly condemned the political use of violence and fraud, gained the enmity of Conservative Strong Man (now President-elect) Laureano...
Craig's recurring leg injury forced him to forfeit his match to Hughes. Barnaby exercised coach's discretion in naming Craig to the travelling team ahead of captain-elect Bramhall...