Word: recountals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times. By appointment or election, with or without party help (he is a Democrat in not very good standing), he has always got it. Last November, the Republicans (reputed to be led by the Ku Klux Klan), swept the state. But Lindsey held his seat by 117 votes. A recount was demanded. Last week, he appeared to be slipping. Meanwhile, appeals have gone through the Nation for financial and moral support. Some of the old enthusiasm for Mr. Judge has been revived. His gallant personal story has been retold?how he started in a real-estate office in Denver...
...Monday afternoon William Seymour, who is now playing in "The Goose Hangs High," will recount to the Theatregoers Club stories of the Boston Museum of which from 1879 to 1889 he was stage manager...
Maine, although normally Republican, is usually considered a barometer of the national election in November. This year, however, there was friction in the Republican ranks over the Governorship nomination. Mr. Brewster, supported by the Ku Klux Klan, won the primary after a recount. The Democrats thereupon made the Klan the issue. They called in Senator Underwood as a speaker. The Republicans called in General Dawes, Senators Watson and Willis, Speaker Gillette. They were scared. The Republican press went so far as to say in advance that Maine was no barometer this year because of the Klan issue...
...after John W. Davis' second speech, Charles G. Dawes went to Maine in preparation for the September election there. Until a week or two ago, there was great uncertainty as to which of two candidates was going to be the. Republican nominee for Governor. There was a prolonged recount contest between Ralph O. Brewster, who went into the primaries with Klan support, and his opponent, who was anti-Klan. Finally, only a few days ago, the nomination was given to Brewster...
...comments drew to the spot a large circle of spectators, who chortled with glee when the comedian seriously made through the microphone such remarks as "Hammond knocks a foul into the grandstand.... It hits a man in an empty seat", and "The umpire calls a balk, Williams demands a recount... The umpire wins...