Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...term of office, but I have never been able to find them recorded in your magazine as the doings of many of the Governors have. His term is up in January and in our State the Governors cannot succeed themselves. If you'll look in the vote tabulations by States in 1932, you'll find at least 25 States that had smaller number of votes than we had, so we're not such a little State after all. We should get some notice once in a while...
...general vote of the faculty the following men were also elected to the council: C. C. Abbott, Economics; Philippe Baldensperger, Comparative Literature; James P. Baxter, History; N. H. Black, Physics; Arlio V. Book, Hygiene; Kirk Bryan, Geology; E. S. Castle, Biology; E. H. Chamberlin, Economics; William Y. Elliott, Government; Allan Evans, History; W. C. Greene, Classics; Mason Hammond, Classics; Albert E. Hindmarsh, Government; Michael Karpovich, History; W. R. W. Kechler, Fine Arts; A. B. Lamb, Chemistry; William L. Langer, History; C. I. Lewis, Philosophy; L. S. Marks, Engineering Sciences; F. O. Matthiessen, History and Literature; L. J. A. Mercier, French...
...butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker joined whole heartedly with the barber, the secondhand man, the House waitresses and biddies in the latest CRIMSON presidential poll. Roosevelt led Landon by 321 to 268 and was ahead throughout, but it was not until the last vote was counted that third place was decided. The result was that Colonel Charles R. Apted '09 ran hand in hand with Communist Browder and Union Lemke, each garnering 13 votes...
...opened the banks . . . ended the depression . . . restored wages." In short, the "man of the peepul." On the other hand, the waitresses almost unanimously were for Alf, feeling that he "would end the depression . . . restore wages . . . lower the cost of living." While the Kansan polled almost 98% of the waitresses vote, still many other menu handlers shly admitted a preference for the virile tactics of "Break It Up" Apted, head of the Yard Police...
This year's award for torchbearer of righteousness goes by unanimous vote to the President of Princeton, who by an encyclical enclosed football tickets hopes to banish Bacchus from the Palmer Stadium. Through collaboration with the Bible and Lord Chesterfield President Dodds arrived at the scholarly conclusion that drinking at football games is poor manners. It follows that sobriety is laudable. So were the Ten Commandments and Wilson's Fourteen Points, but even the most inspired professor would think twice before attempting to enforce them...