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...ballot count slowly progressed Governor Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson seesawed back & forth with sometimes only a few hundred votes separating them. When Governor Sterling's lead moved above 3,000. Jim Ferguson, whose impeachment and removal as Governor put his wife into politics and office, began to demand a recount...
...James Simpson Jr., horsey, socialite son of the board chairman of Marshall Field & Co. Last week final figures proved that Mr. Church had, after all, nosed out Junior Simpson by 73 votes out of some 83,000 cast. Hopelessly beaten in the primary was Carl Chindblom, Republican incumbent. A recount was expected...
...There have been no other people," said Professor Nordal, "who have given so much thought to poetry under such adverse conditions. Their literature is directly the result of their history; their vigor for conquest turned to a tendency to recount their heroic deeds of the past when they found themselves isolated on a barren island and unable to push on further...
...need not recount that the world is passing through a great depression fraught with grueling daily emergencies alike to men and to governments. This depression today flows largely from Europe through the fundamental dislocations of economic and political forces caused by the Great War, in which your service brought bloodshed to an end and gave hope of reconstruction to the world. Our economic strength is such that we would have recovered long since but for these forces from abroad. Recovery of the world now rests and awaits in no small degree upon our country, the United States of America. Some...
...third indictment against the committee is the recurrent vacillation last night. The ballots, it was said, would be counted anew under the system used in voting. Then it was discovered that the ballots had been burned, thus precluding from the start any question of a recount. The CRIMSON proposed another election run definitely under one system or another when the remaining class officers are elected next week. The chairman of the committee decided that another election would be held, in fairness to all concerned, and the matter was presumably cleared up. A few minutes later the CRIMSON was informed that...