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...exiled German physicist, of the "theoretical and dogmatic" school now under current condemnation by the scientific precinct captains of the Third Reich, telegraphed to the local committee his hope of "lasting success," and added...
James M. Landis, Dean of the Law School, made flying trips all over the city throughout the day checking up on practices at the various precincts. Sevven cases of violation of the rule requiring that solicitors at the polls should not stand nearer than 150 feet to the voting places were reported to the police after protests to stop this were not heeded by the precinct wardens...
Fifty-one voters of Milton, Wash. (Tacoma suburb) last week marked their ballots for one Boston Curtis, Republican candidate for precinct committeeman. Boston Curtis was elected. Milton's Mayor Kenneth Simmons, a Democrat, chortled hugely. He, who had sponsored Candidate Curtis and filed his papers, had proved his point that voters "have no idea whom they support." Boston Curtis is a large brown mule...
That stirred up the Dutch blood of Senator Van Nuys, a small-town lawyer who spent 32 years climbing from precinct worker to Senator. He stethoscoped Indiana and concluded that his anti-Court-bill vote was one of the most popular he ever cast. He began to talk of running as an independent if denied the Democratic nomination. "I think I know the rank and file of the party. I have been with President Roosevelt 95% of the time. ... I propose that the people of Indiana shall have a chance to express themselves...
...rate the starting team will be announced on Friday, and until then the race is wide open. (Confidentially it all depends on the precinct leaders who get out the vote...