Word: votes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred and forty-three Massachusetts upperclassmen of high scholastic standing in Harvard College have been awarded scholarships totalling $38,750 for the current academic year by vote of the Corporation, it was an nounced today. The students...
...Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, supposed mentor of Pennsylvania's Negro vote...
...that A.F. of L. opposes the reappointment of Mr. Smith to the Labor Board. Candidates were pointedly asked to state their positions on the matter before election day. First to respond was New York's John Lord O'Brian, Republican candidate for the Senate, who promised to vote against Donald Wakefield Smith. Said Candidate O'Brian: "Members of every board exercising discretionary or judicial powers should be wholly unbiased, impartial, and independent of outside influence...
...James Fay) announced: "I am not only confident that I will be re-elected but I am confident that I will be re-elected as chairman of the Rules Committee. . . ." To Mr. O'Connor from Democratic Representative Arthur P. Lamneck of Ohio promptly went a pledge of one vote...
Chileans who fail to vote are black-listed as civic-duty dodgers and have to pay a 100-peso ($5) fine. Consequently, last week most of them turned out to vote in a typical South American election which picked a successor to stern, small-eyed President Arturo Alessandri Rodriguez, forbidden by law to succeed himself...