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...political expert, who asked that his name be not used, said that although originally he had favored Hoover as the nominee, he thought that now there was nothing that could stop the Kansas Chief Executive from sweeping the Convention on the first ballot when the roll is called on the third day of the gathering...
...before him, his only opponent being one Leo J. Chassee of Milwaukee, Wis. This was no great triumph, however, because: 1) Franklin D. Roosevelt polled nearly three votes to Borah's one; 2) the name of Alfred Mossman Landon was reported written in on many a Republican ballot, but since West Virginia law does not recognize write-ins, the Landon votes were not counted; 3) in the election of the State's 16 delegates to the Republican Convention, 15 were for Governor Landon and one was doubtful. The only sure Borah vote from West Virginia at Cleveland will...
Millions of well-meaning people in Britain are firmly convinced that in demanding Sanctions against Italy last autumn His Majesty's Government was acting from the purest altruism. In last year's "peace ballot" more than 11,000,000 of them voted to support the League up to the hilt. Well aware of these figures, Liberals and Laborites united in heckling the Conservative Government with demands for stiffer Sanctions. Last week Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite Leader in Commons, popped off to Paris in an effort to persuade Socialist Leon Blum to come out strongly for a continuation...
Massachusetts allows no formal entrants in its Presidential primaries, provides a space on the ballot in which the voter may indicate his preference. Last week 76,710 Massachusetts Republicans wrote in the name of Alfred Mossman Landon. That was more than ten times as many as scribbled the name of Herbert Hoover, nine times the total for the next three choices-Borah, Vandenberg, Knox...
...thereby made sure that John Caldwell Calhoun did not get the Vice-Presidential nomination away from Martin Van Buren. The first beneficiary of the two-thirds rule became its first victim. In the 1844 convention Van Buren got a majority vote for the Presidential nomination on the first ballot, could not raise it to two-thirds. Tired delegates compromised on Dark Horse James K. Polk. At Baltimore in 1912 the two-thirds rule changed the history of the world when Champ Clark got a majority on eight ballots, finally lost the nomination to Woodrow Wilson...