Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work. Thus it was a fine organization which Tom Pendergast handed over to his nephew James.- The various indictments charged local election officials with fraudulent vote counts, erasing and changing ballots; a precinct captain was indicted for intimidating a grand jury witness. The grand jury recounted the ballots and got quite different results from those reported by the officials. Typical contrast in one of the many precincts...
...arrangements for the Durbar? What about the King's own uncertain health? What about Mahatma Gandhi's teeming Indian National Congress, its denunciation of the new Constitution now being given by Britain to her Indian Empire (TIME, Oct. 12, et ante)? And what about the Congress' vote to boycott every festivity connected with the Coronation (TIME...
...Send for the Mayor," someone cried. "He has a vote...
...time Mayor Angelo Rossi appeared, listened to the arguments and promptly cast his vote in favor of the statue. Out in the corridor an excited crowd almost mobbed Sculptor Beniamino Bufano. "Good old Benny!" they shouted. "The statue wins!" Artist Bufano, who chopped off his trigger ringer during the War, frequently sleeps in his clothes, and lives almost exclusively on nuts, is a sculptor of un questioned ability who has had a burning ambition to give San Francisco a heroic statue of her patron saint...
...profit at the expense of the company in 1929. In that year Cities Service Co. paid Mr. Doherty $20,500,000 for 200,000 shares of Cities Service common stock at $102.50 a share. Mr. Doherty had originally acquired the stock for about $13.26 a share. His voting power reduced by the sale, Mr. Doherty then gave $1,000,000 of his $20,500.000 back to Cities Service for 1,000,000 shares of $1 non-cumulative 5% stock created especially for him. Cities Service common has one-twentieth of a vote per share. Mr. Doherty's new stock...