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Clearer than any handwriting on the wall is the ballot in the Senior class election. At the bottom of that document the glove is flung down to the unwary voter: "DO YOU APPROVE OF THE CLASS CONSTITUTION?" Following this challenge there is a small box in which one's assent is to be given. Assent, indeed, but what of the man who does not approve? Either the Student Council believes such subversiveness impossible in a Harvard student, or else feels secure enough in the saddle so as to brook no opposition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FASCISM COMES TO HARVARD | 2/21/1936 | See Source »

...Ballot boxes will be placed in all the Houses during lunch and supper at the entrance to the dining halls. For commuters polls will be provided in Dudley, Sever, Pierce, and Harvard Halls between the hours of 10 and 1 o'clock on both Tuesday and Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIOR ELECTIONS FOR EIGHT POSTS TODAY, TOMORROW | 2/18/1936 | See Source »

...second issue on this week's ballot Cambridge sentiment likewise duplicated that of the country by voting 55 per cent for declaring void 5-4 decisions of the Supreme Court adversely affecting acts of Congress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extension of Federal Powers Over Agriculture and Industry Voted Down in Crimson Poll | 2/14/1936 | See Source »

...most valuable political heritage Huey Long left behind was a set of election laws which gave absolute control to the party in power of every ballot box and polling place in Louisiana. While nobody had ever tested it, it looked as if all the "ins" had to do was pull the trigger and hang on forever. Long before last week's primary it had been decided who among the Long survivors were going to get the benefit of this election device. In view of faithful stooge service, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen was to go to Washington until January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Heirs | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...resigned his job to his meek Secretary of State Jose A. Barnet y Vina-gres (TIME, Dec. 23). Of all the dozen "sectors" and their might-have-been candidates who once shrilled for Cuba's attention, only Gomez and Menocal last week actually ran for President. As the ballots were counted by the lazy and inefficient clerks, it appeared more & more certain that Gomez had won. This week, four days & nights after the voting ended, the Government did not yet have final returns. But Gomez' Fusion ticket was well in the lead in the voting for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Plugger's Victory | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

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