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...unique "effort to save Manchester [N. H.] from disaster," a ballot was taken there last week to see whether workers would agree to a 15% wage cut and "permanent peaceful operations" of the huge textile mills of Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., the city's biggest industry, normally employing one-seventh of its total population (76,834). Amoskeag closed its mills last September, is now in 776 reorganization, admittedly faces possible liquidation because it cannot compete with low-wage Southern textile mills. No less than 3,669 of Amoskeag's workless workers (a slim majority of those voting) accepted...
...Kentucky, tired of claims of dishonest election counts by precinct officials, passed a law requiring that four padlocks be placed on all ballot boxes, that the boxes be carried to county seats and counted there by county election boards on the day following the election. In 1932 that 24-hour delay did not keep anyone in the U. S. from knowing that Franklin D. Roosevelt had been overwhelmingly elected President of the U. S. the day before...
...this was the more shocking because a study of the election returns, when all ballots had been finally counted, forced Madrid correspondents to cable that the election was a draw. Spanish party coalition lines are so loosely drawn that, although the "Left" appeared to have won 253 seats, and the "Right" 220, there was no assurance that a vote of confidence could be won by the bilious Left Republican who suddenly found himself again Premier, sickly-green-complexioned Don Manuel Azaña. The President of the Republic, uneasy old Don Niceto Alcála Zamora...
...time and effort in evolving new regulations, whereas permanent rules drawn up by the Student Council would put a stop to the annual bickering and indecision. These are the questions which must be answered and answered in the near future: Who shall be eligible to vote? How shall a ballot be counted that is marked with but one or two preference instead of the required three? What are to be the qualifications for candidacy...
Captain Ed Gerry of the Crimson opened to the scoring by a brilliant goal which as quickly followed by a tally from the ballot of Skiddy Von Stade. After this, the Blue riders dominated the evening's play, especially in the last chukker when they ran up seven goals to two for the editors...