Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coues '95. The coaches are members of the University debating team, P. J. W. Bove '29 in charge of the negative team, and J. F. Harding '30 supervising the affirmative. The judges will be C. T. Murphy 3L., and Elizabeth McAusland 3G.B., with the audience casting the third vote...
...writer continued his financial discussion by stating that "The vote of the Council to establish a graduate advisory committee--would indicate a self-confession of the Council's inability successfully to run its own affairs." I cannot perceive the logic in such a conclusion. Does the presence of a similar graduate committee on the Lampoon and the Advocate and the Dramatic Club and the CRIMSON carry a like significance? The Debating Council chose to elect a graduate committee because such a committee is found affiliated with every stable and lasting undergraduate organization in Cambridge, and also because it will...
...name of both playwright and hero) is a stock company entrepreneur and leading man who, broke, is persuaded by a smalltown boss in Missouri to run as dummy candidate for Mayor. So potent has been his appeal over the footlights that he gets all the women's vote, is elected. Backstage scenes of the type resorted to here are no longer convulsive for their own sake. Nor does pleasant hokum like the sale of candy with a souvenir in each & every box, redeem the longer intervals of sluggish comedy. Henry Hull makes the actor-mayor only a conventional juvenile...
When Alfred Emanuel Smith was a presidential candidate, many a man and woman voted against him for fear the Catholic Church might meddle with the U. S. government. Last week, New York's Senator Royal Samuel Copeland, a Methodist, charged that the church was meddling with U. S. affairs. But it was the Methodist Church, not the Catholic, to which he referred. Senator Copeland charged that the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals in Washington were lobbyists; that in 1927 they had tried to influence his vote on a prohibition measure.* Said the Senator in an open letter...
...financial condition of the Debating Council is admitted by its officials to be bad. One debate of the previous season brought the Council fifteen hundred dollars. A year later, after scores of other debates, some with paying audiences of five hundred dollars on the wrong side. The vote of the Council to establish a graduate advisory committee when coupled with the dubious financial status would indicate a self confession of the Council's inability successfully to run its own affairs...