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Twenty-four Juniors will stand in the election for 1938; 21 men were originally nominated by the out-going Council, one of whom had to be dropped. Four men, Richard T. Davis, George F. Lowman, Paul Massik, and Sheldon Ware, were added to the ballot by petition...
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That evening some 4,000 grimly serious actors, not yet informed of the agreement, swarmed to Hollywood's barnlike American Legion Stadium with minds made up about how to mark the strike ballots they were handed at the door. Loud were the cheers when President Montgomery, dog-tired but icy-cool, announced the settlement. Since formal contracts had yet to be signed, and other producers, notably Warner Brothers, had yet to be brought to terms, a strike vote was taken. Bandy-legged Boris Karloff hustled around with a ballot box which he somehow managed to make suggest an infernal...
...famed Cardinal Mercier, wrathfully out of his Archbishop's Palace at Malines. He not only told the Catholic voters of Belgium in a formal statement that Rexism is "a danger to the country and the Church" but he issued an advance "rebuke" to anyone who cast a blank ballot. Under Belgian law every enfranchised male must vote. Many blank ballots were expected to be cast by such Catholics as consider the Premier too innovating a New Dealer. After the Primate had spoken everyone agreed, "Degrelle hasn't a chance...
Later in the afternoon the House upheld the gubernatorial decision through failure to mass a two-thirds vote to override. The final legislatorial ballot stood at 100 to sustain and 101 to override...