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...among whom patriotic Nacionalistas were sinisterly mingled with notorious Nazionalistas, invited all-&-sundry to sign a monster "Album of Peace" to be ceremoniously presented to shrewd old Vice-President-in-the-Exercise-of-the-Executive-Power Ramón S. Castillo. Doubtless these publicity shenanigans amused that dry-humored politico; but what really pleased him was the more genuine peace plebiscite of recent congressional elections...
...election this week would be close. Arrogant, handsome General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, once his nation's "strong man," was backed by the rightist Conservative and Liberal Parties, the small but noisy pro-Nazi Popular Socialist Vanguard. Smooth, greying Juan Antonio Rios, veteran Radical Party politico, was backed by the middle-to-left Popular Front, fast recovering from its sickness following the death of President Pedro Aguirre Cerda last November...
...compromise candidate of the Left is Juan Antonio Ríos, an ambitious, seasoned Radical politico. The Popular Front, which leaked badly during President Aguirre's administration and went to pieces at his death, has been patched up and should carry Ríos to victory. A big questionmark, however, is Chile's independent electorate-a full quarter of her voters. Many of them are small businessmen who did not like the last Popular Front administration. If enough of them should swing to Ibáñez, neither candidate may get a clear majority since there...
Until he ran for Councilman, on a spur-of-the-moment decision, he had been only a sideline politico. His campaign amazed Manhattan politicians. With no machine support, he ran third among six Councilmen elected in New York City. Helpfully, he mailed 200,000 sample ballots to voters, showing how to mark the complicated proportional representation ballot. In Harlem, which gave him some 50,000 No. 1 votes, there were fewer spoiled ballots than anywhere else in the city...
...city limits. What is needed is an experienced administrator, preferably lured away from some other city, who could remain completely detached from the shenanigans at City Hall. A really good man, wisely chosen, would do a lot towards restoring the shattered confidence in Cambridge government. With a local politico as "professional" manager, (even James M. Curley's name has been seriously mentioned for the job), Cambridge would have two strikes at the very ouset and one more might lead to a receivership...