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Word: recounting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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January 14: Charles W. Eliot 2d. is an attorney who has been Chairman of the Schenectady City Planning Commission. Schenectady was the first city in New York state to make substantial progress under the "official map" planning powers. Mr. Moot will recount Schenectady's experiences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CITY PLANNING SCHOOL GIVES LECTURE SERIES | 9/28/1934 | See Source »

...mayor-elect would give no definite notice as to policies when in office both because of and until the recount and until he has a chance to see at first hand the conditions surrounding him when he enters office. However, he did say, "I shall do my utmost to fulfill my party pledges of reduction of taxes, full value to the taxpayers for their taxes, earnest and capable men for department heads, and special observance of the laws regulating advertising of contracts, prohibiting splitting of contracts and collusive bidding. These last evils must be stamped out. I shall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mansfield Promises "Honesty Will Be Policy" Of Newly-Elected Boston City Administration | 11/10/1933 | See Source »

...votes, while John D. Lynch, his opponent, had polled 16,571 votes. The election in Boston proved the closest of the three, with Mansfield edging out former Mayor Malcolm E. Nichols '99, by a margin of 1,892 votes. The contest was so close that a recount may be necessary. The total number of votes cast for the candidates from all 362 precincts was as follows: Mansfield, 69,731; Nichols, 67,839; Foley, 61,371; Parkman, 28,844; O'Connell, 10,204; Sullivan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LaGuardia, Mansfield, and Russell Win in City Elections---North Carolina Goes Definitely Dry | 11/8/1933 | See Source »

Tennessee gave Repealists their first bad scare when it turned in a wet majority of only 9,000 out of nearly 250,000 votes. Memphis and Nashville were barely able to overcome the Dry strength of Republican moonshining East Tennessee. There was some talk of a recount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Repeal by Christmas | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

Every summer they come out--these articles on how to see little-known Boston, New York or San Francisco on practically nothing. And every summer the visitors get hold of them, follow directions, and are greeted by howls of delight from the natives when they recount the joys of the three-cent forry ride, or the tasty messes at Silvios, the Svenska Brot or Chez Rose-Marie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Places to Visit in Boston | 7/25/1933 | See Source »

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