Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long. As elsewhere in the South the important part of Louisiana elections is the primary. Louisiana's primary law provided that every candidate could hand in the names of his choices for election clerks and commissioners. All the names were written on slips and five chosen by lot for each polling place. By entering plenty of dummy candidates one side could, by the law of chance, practically exclude opposing factions from the important job of counting votes. Then the dummy candidates could quit the race...
...Britain's Catholic Charge d'Affaires George Arthur D. Ogilvie-Forbes is a sort of Papal Ogre in Spain, the News Chronicle's reasonably objective Geoffrey Cox takes time out to report that considering that he is a Catholic" he is really not such a bad lot: "At night, very late, there would come stealing faintly into the ha11 of the Embassy a sound which I am sure must have perplexed the [Spanish] guards at the gate. . . . Behind closed doors Mr. Ogilvie-Forbes was play-the bagpipes. He plays them, I understand, excellently. It always struck...
...scores, for back of this realignment of Providence papers lay a long and bitter feud. Last March, a Pawtucket city official threw a Journal camera into the flooded Blackstone River. For reasons of their own, Pawtucket politicians had insisted on building the new City Hall on a low-lying lot, and they did not want their location photographed with water creeping over it. Also in March, Walter O'Hara sued the Journal for $1,000,000 for libel because it intimated that he was working in collusion with Pawtucket officials to sell that city a bargain-bought textile mill...
...Joseph B. Weaver of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, who was appointed by President Roosevelt to improve safety at sea after the Morro Castle fire of 1934, last week resigned his job. Said he: "I feel that the job is about done. We have cleaned up a lot of ships and pulled some out of service. We have assembled a technical staff and we have gone through 22 months without a single passenger fatality aboard American ships, and that is a good record." Good though the record may be, its establishment was not accepted by Washington observers...
Wrapping her kimono around her pink slip, Florence Sunderstrom, the blonde heroine, crossed her Dietrich-like legs and answered a question, "No, I don't mind Eddie's 'surprise attack'; it's a lot of fun." Billy Randolph, played by Eddie Philips, uses army tactics in making love to Florence...