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Dictator's henchmen pointed out that this total is ten times the hitherto largest number of votes ever cast in a Spanish election. Does this mean that the De Rivera dictature has actually received a favorable mandate ten times more potent than any ever before expressed...
...negative votes were permitted. Every ballot cast was a ballot for Primp de Rivera and there existed every opportunity for his henchmen to dragoon the illiterate peasantry to the polls and force them to vote...
...votes behind the party ticket. His chief war cry in the present campaign is-"Divorce Wisconsin from the LaFollettes." Senator Lenroot is also a World Courter. In fact, he challenged Governor Elaine to a debate on the subject. The Governor could not be bothered; one of his henchmen offered to substitute. Whereupon, the Senator said sweetly that he "could hardly accept the challenge of a scared man's bottle holder or towel slinger." The Governor replied that the Senator is merely "a Coolidge rubber stamp...
Personalities who loomed in the news last week as President Calles and his militant pan-Mexican henchmen continued to enforce the anti-Roman Catholic* Mexican Constitution (TIME, Aug. 9 et ante...
...dirty alleys, frame hovels and a population of Negroes and foreign-born toilers who cluster at eventide in Greek restaurants and poolrooms. Here, for 25 years, Jumbo Crowley held sway, sending his cosmopolitan children to the polls to vote as he thought best; dispensing protection, advice or instructions, to henchmen in whose doings he never was implicated-until lately, when he was arrested for directing certain alcohol operations, and since when- they say-he has completely reformed...