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Word: recounts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the policemen demanded a recount, General Otero was unmoved. He denied the whole incident and saw to it that his daughter was crowned. "Mexicans," he explained, "do not know how to lose." But General Otero knew how a winner should act. To appease his daughter's competitors-all princesses of the festivals-he invited them to a gala luncheon. As Moy and her princesses plunged into a week of parties, even the traffic police forgot about the squabble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Queen for the Week | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...executive board of Student Government decided on the move because of the "errors and confusion" attending the recent student Government election. The office of treasurer was the only post affected by last Tuesday's recount, which included ballots misplaced by the election committee in the original vote counting on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Council Calls Revote for Treasurer's Post | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...Student Government at Radcliffe held its election last week and announced the results with great fanfare. Only yesterday did the fact become known that the "election committee" had misplaced 97 votes and that a recount had changed the results in one office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Has a Recount | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...president Joan Projansky '49 announced last night that a recount of the 604 ballots, held earlier this week after the missing votes were discovered in Harvard Hall, has resulted in one change in Executive Council personnel. Mary Louise Morganthall '51, of Barnard Hall and Middletown, Pennsylvania, will serve as Student Government treasurer during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 97 'Misplaced' Ballots Bring Switch in New' Cliffe Council | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

There was some doubt after first tabulations as to who would be the tenth committeemen. A recount was held, however, and Broido's four-vote lead over Alfred J. Klingel was upheld...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Choose Committee To Manage Jubilee May 6, 7 | 3/9/1949 | See Source »

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