Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Following vote-fraud charges by Governor-reject Tom Dewey during the campaign, Governor-re-elect Lehman of New York ordered a special grand-jury investigation of balloting in Albany County-the one upstate county carried by Mr. Lehman...
Twenty-one Yale game players will vote for the 1939 grid captain to succeed this year's leader, Bobby Green, this afternoon at the Field House after the squad picture has been taken. The eligible gridmen include four juniors and two sophomores...
Voters may vote for a candidate because he is a New Dealer or anti-New Dealer, handsome, honest, a neighbor, a relative, or a fellow Bulgarian immigrant. This sometimes confuses the meaning of their votes. But when they vote directly on an issue, their meaning is not easily mistaken. Some issues on which voters of various States last week expressed themselves directly...
...Braun put on a good show-radio programs, contests, personal conciliation of Colorado farmers, etc. He was handicapped by the fact that Colorado voters were overwhelmingly primed to vote No to most of the other referendum questions on the ballot...
Died. John J. ("Bathhouse John") Coughlin. 78, since 1892 a Chicago alderman and political power; of pneumonia; in Chicago. A onetime Turkish bath rubber. Bathhouse John saved his tips, opened an establishment of his own. managed to get a grip on the vote of the First Ward, never lost it. A master of personal publicity, he was equally famed for rhymed doggerel (which Chicago newshawks ghosted for him), bright waistcoats, a string of race horses which lost consistently...