Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these, only Major County, up on the Cimarron River near the Kansas border, failed this autumn to vote the Democratic ticket for President and Senator. Last week at Major's county seat of Fairview, which lies on the main line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., Gerald Vincent Underwood, publisher, and Cass Alonzo Carr, editor of the Fairview Republican, took matters into their own hands. Announced they in their paper...
...lower courts stockholder Keller lost, the ruling being that a vote of the majority of the stock was binding on the minority. Last week on appeal, however, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed that opinion, holding that Stockholder Keller and his fellow holdouts were indeed entitled to cash. Said the high court of Delaware: "Property rights may not be destroyed...
...court's point was that the privileges of the preferred stockholder, plainly set forth in the certificate of incorporation, were acquired when stock was purchased and constitute a vested property right. To deprive a stockholder of that right-by majority vote in the Wilson case-was an infringement of the due-process clauses of State and Federal Constitutions...
Theodora Goes Wild (Columbia). When the Lynnfield Literary Society met to ban a best-seller named Sinned Against, pretty Theodora Lynn (Irene Dunne) cast her vote with the rest. No one in Lynnfield knew that, under the nom de plume of Caroline Adams, she had written the book herself. Until its illustrator, Michael Grant (Melvyn Douglas), who had met Theodora on one of her rare trips to New York, arrived in Lynnnfield, there seemed no danger that her double life would be exposed. By good-humored blackmail, Grant compelled Theodora to persuade her maiden aunts to give...
Robert Benchly has the audience rolling in the aisles with his short, "How to Vote," and he is followed by an amusing Mickey Mouse and some news reels. An evening spent at the University is worth while...