Word: precincts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incomplete returns (one precinct not reporting) show that B.U. (a local team) has lost to Tufts, 70 to 0, to Rhode Island State, 30 to 0, and to Connecticut by a similar score. If, tomorrow, another such drubbing should ocCurtis not surprising. They close all the bars down here on Thanksgiving Day so I haven't heard the starting line-ups yet, though Dick said Monday that he would start his first string and let the game decide the rest...
...boyhood admirer of William Jennings Bryan, serious-minded young Lew sold newspapers and magazines on the streets of Spokane, where his family moved when he was eight, saved every cent for a college education. At the University of Washington he became a formidable debater, a campus politico, a precinct committeeman in the Democratic Party before he left the classroom. Friends recall that he became a Democrat because the state was full of Republicans; he figured he could get in on the ground floor...
Traditionally, the Government party stalwarts get control of the polling places, count the ballots. If something should go wrong at a precinct, the mistake may be righted in the Chamber of Deputies, whose 144 members (all but three of whom belong to the P.R.M.) make the final check on the voting...
...Siberia, Commissar "Mike" Kalugin ("strictly Tammany" said another U.S. correspondent) walked down a factory assembly line "talking to the workers, a wave of the hand to this one, a pat on the back for that - a ward-boss patrolling his precinct." But to Reporter White's Kansan eyes all these familiar people seemed to be living in "a moderately well run penitentiary, which kept [them] working hard and provided a bunk to sleep in, three daily meals and enough clothes to keep [them] warm." It was a prison whose "walls were covered with posters explaining that freedom and justice...
...wind was raw and sharp as the Governor of New York and his wife -both in solemn mood-boarded the train for Manhattan to vote, and then to wait a nation's decision. In Manhattan, 78 people were in line ahead of the Deweys in the Park Avenue precinct. The others stood aside, despite Dewey's protest that "We haven't anything else to do today. We can wait...