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...Happy waited until Laffoon left the State, then called a special session of the Legislature, to order a primary. Furious, Laffoon got it made a double primary, calling for a run-off between the two leading candidates. His man. Thomas Rhea, won the first round but Happy won the runoff, then threw himself into an election campaign that took him into every Kentucky hamlet from Big Sandy to Mills Point. Aided by Senator Barkley and Franklin Roosevelt's prestige, he beat Judge King Swope, Republican, by 96.000 votes. Then he squared off at Frankfort to bring about the reforms...
...would be split between Messrs. Wilcox, Sholtz and Pepper, opinions were more varied. In a Florida primary, the winning candidate must poll as many votes as all his opponents put together or face a runoff. Best guess appeared to be that Pepper would be high man in the first primary, with Sholtz and Wilcox running neck and neck for second place. If, as is likely, none of the three has the requisite majority, Florida voters will not know for sure who will succeed Claude Pepper until the runoff election...
Squibb and Page got off to a good start in the runoff after ten other boats had been eliminated and used their great weight to good advantage in sailing close to the wind on the long beat up to the finish line. The runners-up, a poor fourth at the start, gained steadily running before the wind...
...blow to Beck's prestige was tempered by the size of Langlie's vote and the knowledge that A. F. of L. leaders would do their best to defeat Meyers. Last week, in the runoff election, 37-year-old Lawyer Langlie's votes jumped to 78,997. "Call me Vic" Meyers, carrying on a serious campaign, was able to poll 48,114 or 518 more than the sum of his own and Mayor Dore's primary votes, but that was not enough...
Having gone through a grueling Presidential campaign last fall, Los Angeles had little wind left for its municipal primary last month, still less for its runoff election last week in which Mayor Frank Lawrence Shaw was returned to office for four more years with a majority of 25,000 votes over his opponent, County Supervisor John Anson Ford...