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...comes every four years, and so do presidential elections. So, too, comes the traditional CRIMSON sponsored straw vote of the University on presidential candidates. The poll will once more hit the Cambridge scene late this month giving students and Faculty a chance to indicate their favorite before the November payoff...
...Plant Payoff. Henry Kaiser, who still owes the Government $100 million for his Fontana steel plant, thought he saw a way to pay off the debt: he hiked his prices an average of $30 a ton (on top of the $9-plus increase which he and other steelmakers had just posted). Kenneth Norris, chairman of the Western States Council, .called it "a knockout blow ... by the man who talked so loud about what he was going to do to build Western industry...
...Just before the payoff in Philadelphia, some brave experts made their final prophecies. Of 815 newspaper editors polled by the U.S. News, 417 expected Senator Arthur Vandenberg to get the nomination, 271 hoped he would. Jim Farley predicted "a deadlock between Dewey and Taft. If they get together, one of them will be the nominee. If they don't, you'll see Vandenberg in there...
...Payoff. In Battle Creek, Mich., 74-year-old James M. Pier won a divorce when he complained that his wife wore him out dragging him to bingo games...
Doctors were aghast at an eight-degree jump last night as the patient sat with a thermometer between blanched lips and a Daily Record (Payoff Edition) clutched in hand...