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...regulars set out to get him. Hastily but carefully they organized a "write-in" campaign for Duff's old mentor and present campaign foe, U.S. Senator Ed Martin. They launched a heavily financed attack on the governor's state chairman, Harvey Taylor, who was running for renomination as state senator. A fortnight ago Congressman Clarence Brown, Taft's campaign manager, predicted confidently: "Duff will be handled...
...independent candidate. But the Kuomintang cracked down: since she was still a party member, she could not run without party approval. Miss Li resigned, but the leaders refused to accept the resignation. "Illegal and undemocratic," squealed Miss Li. But when ward bosses rallied round and offered to start a write-in vote for her, she refused. "Thanks, thanks," she said, "but in the end you must vote for the party's choice...
...center, the ballots given to students listed proposals for scholarships (receiving a 17.4 percent vote), hockey rink and auditorium (16.9 percent), music center (3.3 percent), new infirmary (2 percent), music center (3.3 percent), new infirmary (2 percent), monument statue, plaque, etc. (1.8 percent), as well as space for write-in suggestions, which provided the remainder of the votes
Also on the ballot were a music center, an enlarged infirmary and the monument, but 92 independents took advantage of their write-in privileges and came up with such original suggestions as a veterans bonus and an endowed liquor establishment...
Thaxter Swan '45, chairman of the Council's extracurricular activities committee, explained that many voters were confused both by the placing of the hockey rink and auditorium together on the ballot, and ignorance of the fact that the proposed activities center would include a theater. Write-in votes for a theater, as well as ballots marked for auditorium on which the hockey rink was crossed out, were added to the activities center total, Swan said...