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...Baldwin '05, president of the American Civil Liberties Union; Lloyd K. Garrison '19, dean of the Wisconsin University Law School; Corliss Lamont '24, well known liberal of New York; and Julian W. Mack '87, New York judge. The name of the latter is, however, being placed on the ballot because of a petition received previously which had the necessary 200 signatures all of which were eligible...
...name of Mack had been put on the ballot even before the petition was received. To those to whom the petition was sent Bacon said in part, "We regret to inform you that this petition was insufficient, and that the names of four of these proposed nominees will not appear on the 1937 ballot...
Declination of the House to undergo another ballot, proposed last Friday after the repealists had won a narrow 120-112 victory, came when Representative John B. Wenzler of South Boston asked for a roll call vote on his action for reconsideration. Only 20 men rose to support him, ten less than the required number...
...rose Viscount Cecil, No. 1 exponent in Britain of the League of Nations and stager of the 11,000,000-vote Peace Ballot (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). "This is a perfectly impossible combination of idealism!" Idealist Cecil warmly told Idealist Lothian. "The feeling in America against such a proposal would be overwhelming...
...Constitution, given to India mainly by Sir Samuel Hoare when he was Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935, et ante), was tested in its first trial-by-ballot last week. The voting was in what an ignoramus might call "only provincial elections" but several of the Indian provinces involved are each as large as Italy. Out of 350,000,000 people who inhabit India, some 35,000,000 cast the votes counted last week and of these about 6,000,000 were women. It was the claim of Mother Britain, voiced in her London Times, that...