Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble you to let me know the answer to the above question, and if Governor Smith did not receive the largest popular vote, except for Mr. Hoover, will you please state who did and what the figures as to the votes were...
Harvard Club of Central Ohio (at Columbus): Bland L. Stradley, Secretary, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio...
...that it had dissipated entirely when a comprehensive exposition of the relative merits of three rival ten o'clocks was interrupted by an entirely irrelevant query as to whether eight minutes was enough to get from Harvard Square to the Back Bay station. With things in such a sad state, it is evident that the time has come to shut up shop. So today the shutters go up on the Vagabond's windows, the clock is stopped and the typewriter given to the janitor' for his Christmas present...
...polls. In Massachusetts, Blue Laws have always been in style, and the country members of the legislature have until this year succeeded in upholding the morals of the cities at least one day a week. But on November 6, by means of an initiative petition, the people of the state were at last able to declare their will. And now, when the Commonwealth permits the city of Boston to decide for itself whether its people shall debauch the Sabbath to the extent of going to see a ball game--the city fathers themselves forbid...
...majority. She has close fights for the governorship, but in the legislature one party has an overwhelming majority. Today there is more of a fight between the Republican Mayor and the Republican Governor than between the two opposing parties in the election. Who will solve the mystery of Bay State polities? Perhaps it will be Mayor Gillis of Newburyport in a few years. Certainly public opinion, which Lord Bryce considered, the great force in American public life, does not seem to obtain results in Massachusetts...