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...statement followed a recount of all ballots and a three hour debate which ended in the quashing of a move for a new election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Kills Move for New Election of NSA Delegates | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...recount showed that the first tallying had given each candidate 50 to 60 votes too few, Weeks said. One candidate's total soared 100 votes in the new addition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Kills Move for New Election of NSA Delegates | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...caught Morgan with 13 dead ducks, Brown with 16; but He-Man Gable had been staggering along with 25 (21 above the legal limit). Nonsense, Gable huffed, he had not shot a single duck. After consultation with an M-G-M lawyer, the warden decided that, on recount, Gable had really shot only six. With everybody (except the ducks) feeling better, the party was fined $200 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts for Today | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Recount. In Waukesha, Wis., indignant Audrey Shefloe sued for divorce; she had discovered, said she, that her husband had two fingers missing on each hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Said Woop last night when conceded the election. "Recount? 'Smecount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Woop Machine Rolls in Bow Polls | 11/14/1947 | See Source »

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