Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That not one vote for "guilty" was cast...
...surprising amount of faith. The California primary, first direct contest between the leading candidates, is of great importance psychologically as well as numerically. California is farthest from New York. California contains a curious mixture of wet Protestants, dry Catholics and vice versas. Thousands of Republicans were registered to vote in the Democratic primary. To predict a decisive Smith victory in California the margin of 10,000 votes quoted last week by Smith men seemed inadequate, senseless. Behind Candidate Walsh is William Gibbs McAdoo. Behind Candidate Reed is William Randolph Hearst. Behind Candidate Smith is onetime (1915-21) Senator James Duval...
...received one Leonard H. Huff, hard bitten hillbilly, aged 92, who said: "I have been waiting four years to get a chance to vote for you." Candidate Smith replied: "By gosh, I hope you get the chance...
...When votes were counted, last week, it was seen at first blush that not a single Communist had been returned and that the country had swung toward supporters of the Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, savior of the Franc. The second blush would come seven days later, when Frenchmen will vote again in those constituencies where no candidate obtained a majority last week...
...vote of the members of the first University crew on Saturday evening, Carl Howard Pforzheimer '28 of Purchase, New York, was chosen as coxswain of the Harvard eight...