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Meanwhile, from a standing start in March, when he polled less than a 1% vote among Republican rank & file, Willkie had risen to 3% in early May; last week the Gallup Poll gave him 10%. On the strength of the surprising write-in vote (at last count more than 24,000) for Willkie in New Jersey's primary, observers predicted that Willkie might get the votes of half of New Jersey's 32 delegates (pledged to Dewey...
...radio station called KFKB ("Kansas First, Kansas Best"). In 1930 the Kansas Medical Board revoked his medical license for "unprofessional conduct," and the Federal Radio Commission refused to renew his broadcasting license. Undaunted, Brinkley leaped into the Governorship campaign on a "vindication ticket," polling 183,000 votes on a write-in ballot. In 1932 and 1934 he again aspired to the Governorship, but was badly beaten both times by Alf Landon...
When things have come to such a pass that the Sultan turns commoner and runs for president, Eddie to his horror is made a write-in opposition candidate, campaigns against himself to no effect: he sweeps the country except for the outlying provinces of Maino and Vermontash. The nine old councilors declare the election unconstitutional, and Eddie leaves town on a magic carpet, which he controls by a cantrip-"inflation" to go up, ''deflation" to come down. Eventually the carpet burns away from under him,* and he comes to earth with a thud, wakes to find himself...
...William George McDowell Jr., 55, of Alabama, either if elected would serve for more than a decade. Last-minute lobbying for a presiding bishop who would be in the saddle a little more briefly, produced, when the bishops gathered to vote behind closed doors, numerous other names. Of these write-in candidates, one 63-year-old showed such strength on the first ballot that he received a majority on the second, was then elected unanimously by both bishops and deputies. His name: Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, Bishop of Virginia...
...Fusion nomination which went to onetime Congressman Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, McKee entered the ring under an independent Democratic banner, as the "Recovery" candidate. There were two explanations offered for Joe McKee's decision to run for Mayor. The World-Telegram, Scripps-Howard crusader which had sponsored the write-in movement for him a year ago, turned bitterly against its former champion, denounced him for splitting the Reform ticket, declared that McKee's hankering for another taste of public life had been whetted last month when, as leader of a bankers' section of the NRA parade...