Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pendergast, his nephew or other big shots of the organization may possibly be subpoenaed, but there is little chance of their being indicted. Those wise in the ways of Kansas City politics feel sure that the Pendergasts have taken no direct part in irregularities, have never even hinted that votes be stolen or lists padded; that they merely told their subordinates to get all voters to register and vote Democratic, ward patronage to be apportioned according to results. Hope that this week's trial might break up the Pendergast Machine rested not so much on getting its drivers...
Crusty but popular President Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, 76, described himself as "a worn out old cart" when his followers recently insisted that he stand for reelection. Last week the Electoral Assembly of 300 passed over the "Old Cart" and by just one vote failed to elect Jurist Kaarlo Stahlberg who was the Finnish Republic's first elected President in 1919-25 and today is supposed to stand for drawing Finland into closer relations with the Soviet Union. On the second ballot, Agrarian Party Leader Kyosti Kallio, the only man who has been uninterruptedly elected a Finnish Legislator since...
...March 9, Seattle will vote whether to replace worn-out street cars by spend ing $12,500,000 for 240 trackless trolley and 135 busses built by Twin Coach Co. Last week, Washington's Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, onetime bandmaster, had the American Legion hire a brunette, a blonde and a redhead, all young and pretty, to act as publicity building "hostesses" on a demonstrator model of the new vehicles. Said Vic Meyers: "They will be neat, sweet and discreet. To protect them in the rush hour we'll put bumpers on them, fore...
...meanwhile skillfully husbanded Yale's manpower, pushed its graduate schools of Law and Medicine into the first rank. James Rowland Angell, a University of Michigan graduate who reached Yale from the Carnegie Corporation, was the first modern Yale president not an alumnus, but Yalemen were unanimously ready to vote that no Yaleman could have done better...
...John Henry Lewis, Negro pugilist: a sensationally hard-fought 15-round fight in which he defended his light heavyweight championship against Italian Al Ettore, with whom last month he fought a draw; by the deciding vote of Referee Leo Houck, when the judges disagreed; in Philadelphia...