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...text. As it stood temporarily last week, Russia's proposed new charter aimed to correct such abuses as the Soviet's present suppression of free speech and freedom of the press, spying upon citizens' mail and failure to provide either universal suffrage or secrecy of the ballot. Chairman of the Soviet committee which roughed out the tentative Constitution is Joseph Stalin and into it the Dictator stuck a more imposing status for Georgia in the Caucasus, where he was born. Georgia, when all goes as the Dictator directs next November, will become the Autonomous Federated Soviet Socialist...
...manager for Alf Landon. Perched on the back of an overstuffed chair in Cleveland's old-fashioned Hollenden Hotel, Hamilton had the Press basking at his feet as he announced that Landon would have over 300-no-over 400 votes, perhaps a majority (502 votes) on the first ballot...
...Landon's bandwagon, temporarily halted by the refusal of the big Pennsylvania and New York delegations to pledge complete support of the Kansan, forged head when the results of an informal poll of the delegates taken by newspapermen became known. London was critical with 486 votes on the first ballot not counting many of the so called 'favorite son" states which are expected to switch to him. Horah was given approximately 70 votes and Know about the same number in the poll...
...action that clinched the nomination for Landon, this politician felt, was the announcement earlier in the week that J. Henry Roraback's uninstructed Connecticut delegation would vote for the "Kansas Coolidge" on the first ballot. This was the first break in the solid ranks of the free Eastern delegations, and what "Stop Landon" movement there was collapsed, in the opinion of the annonymous Bay State Republican...
...even felt now that Connecticut had broken that New York's bloc of 90 might cast at least half their total for Landon on the first ballot. Even if the Kansan doesn't pile up the necessary 501 votes, when the roll is first called, he said that some doubtful states might change their votes so that more than a majority could be counted for Landon, making a second ballot unnecessary. This is what happened in the 1928 Democratic Convention when Al Smith was nominated...