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...taken their seats.* Senator Barkley, as Acting Leader, rapped lor order. Turning the gavel over to Senator Pittman, President Pro-temp of the Senate, Candidate Barkley took his seat with the others. The chairman appointed McKellar (a Barkley man) and Russell (for Harrison) to count the ballots. Senator Black, secretary of the majority conference, prepared to write them down. Carter Glass, oldest man in the Senate, offered his battered Panama for a ballot box. prompting New Jersey's Smarty Smathers, three months a Senator, to crack about secret ballots in a glass...
...Harrison, and the Senator from Kentucky, Mr. Barkley, as candidates." Seventy-four Senators snickered at this bit of superfluity. Chairman Pittman sang, "Without objection it is so ordered,'' and the voters resumed their trips to the table, one by one, until Burt Wheeler gingerly cast the last ballot. Senator Pittman banged his gavel: "The judges will count the votes." There were 75. "The judges will read the ballots...
...President Cárdenas. Thundered Social Democrat Leader Judge Prieto Laurens: "The official party as usual used every means to assure its triumph. . . . A majority of the voting booths were placed in homes of Government party leaders and a mere 10% of the eligible voters was allowed to ballot...
Both Sullivan and Harvin are on their respective House Committees, the former in Lowell, the latter at Leverett. Harvin was also on the Union Committee and chairman of the Jubilee Committee in his Freshman year, while Sullivan was a member of the Reviews Committee. Election Results 1938 Ballot *Charles Russell Allen 185 *John Lyell Dampeer 171 *Francis Keppel 136 *Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr., 133 *Vernon Henry Struck 121 *Edward Larrabee Barnes 108 George Frederick Lowman 106 Morris Earle 104 Nathaniel Goddard Benchley 99 Herbert Bruce Griswold 97 Sheldon Ware 88 Wiley Edward Mayne 82 Gibson Winter 82 Caspar Willard Weinberger...
...BALLOT...