Word: marylanders
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...MARYLAND: There is NO ABSENTEE VOTING in this state...
...eight states that do not allow absentee voting are: Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina...
...broadcasting a U.P. bulletin about a murder confession, five radio stations last month were cited for contempt. The Maryland Press Association is fighting a proposal by the Maryland Court of Appeals to extend Rule 904 throughout the state. Protested the Washington Post: "The effect is to cloak the conduct of the police in secrecy and deprive the whole public of information...
Henry Louis Mencken, the veteran volcano from Baltimore, had a wonderful time at the Wallace convention (see PRESS), and nearly became the subject of a resolution. Maryland Wallaceites wanted the convention to censure him for his reporting in the Baltimore Sun ("Whereas he has resorted to un-American slander against the people of this convention . . ."). But the chair refused the motion on the ground that it would start a flood of others. Other Menckenisms filed to the Sun (on Henry Wallace): "If ... he suddenly sprouts wings and begins flapping about the hall, no one will be surprised"; (on Vice Presidential...
Just after noon one day last week at Dower House, the vast 17th Century Maryland manse that once housed the Earls of Calvert and Baltimore, a telephone rang. The Washington Times-Herald was on the phone; an editor had a message for his boss. The butler and maid went to wake their mistress. They found her in her big bed, slumped over a book and an early edition of her paper. A heart attack had killed copper-haired Eleanor Medill Patterson, 63, the vain, shrewd, lonely, and lavishly spoiled woman who used a newspaper to speak her whims with...