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...Lawyer Daniel Joseph Doherty, who was a pay clerk in the Norfolk Navy Yard when he got his discharge from the U. S. Navy in 1919 and who so far has held no more important political job than assistant district attorney of Middlesex County was elected on the first ballot. The new job makes Lawyer Doherty a gubernatorial possibility for Massachusetts...
Fiorello's Gamble. In spite of these evil omens friends of LaGuardia were last week actually confident of his reelection. One reason for their confidence was that a last minute move to write in LaGuardia's name on the Democratic ballot produced no less than 50,000 votes-a bagatelle compared to Mahoney's 400,000 or Copeland's 200,000. but a striking vote of confidence under the circumstances...
...blunder for the German Government to suggest that the dispatches of Norman Ebbutt, a distinguished journalist, were unfair. He got into trouble with Nazis in 1933 for reporting truthfully that many Germans were afraid to vote against the Government in the plebiscite because of the possibility of marked ballot papers, but as recently as 1935 some of his dispatches were reproduced in Berlin newsorgans because they pleased Nazi bigwigs...
...Barkley," shouted Judge Russell, as he drew out the first slip. "Harrison," barked Judge McKellar on the second. "Harrison."' "Harrison." "Harrison." "Harrison." "Barkley." "Barkley." "Harrison." "Barkley." Seesaw. Seesaw. When the vote reached 37-37 there was a pause and a dead silence. The final ballot looked "big as a quilt" to Candidate Barkley, who bit off his pipestem...
...motions of starting a cleanup. Then & there the current overlord of Tammany, Boss John Curry, made a mistake. Instead of nominating McKee for a special election to fill Walker's place, he chose a Tammany wheelhorse, Surrogate Judge John P. O'Brien, and maneuvered McKee off the ballot. O'Brien was elected but 125,000 angry citizens wrote in McKee's name on the ballot. Next year at the regular election, Tammany backed O'Brien again. Jim Farley, with whom Tammany had been on the outs since Walker's trial, arranged a Recovery ticket...