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...president, Learned Hand '93; two vice-president, David Cheever '97, and Harrison Tweed '07; and a secretary-treasurer, Clark, govern the Association. The board of Directors consists of 15 men, six apopinted from the faculty and larger Harvard Clubs, and nine elected by postal ballot...
...Francisco's Superior Court last week Charlotte Anita Whitney, 68-year-old daughter of a onetime State Senator and niece of a U. S. Supreme Court Justice appointed by Abraham Lincoln, was convicted of "false swearing" to signatures on Communist petitions for a place on the ballot, faced a possible sentence of six years in prison...
...Senator George Wharton Pepper. A stanch Republican, a devout Episcopalian whose portly figure is as familiar in Philadelphia as the facade of Independence Hall, Lawyer Pepper set a U. S. record for per-vote campaign expenditures when he ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1926 ($2.42 per Bepper ballot...
...King of the Hellenes last week. The Hellenes had voted him back onto the Greek Throne from which they drove him twelve years ago. All Greek elections are conducted with terrorist methods and the latest plebiscite was no exception. As a voter one could drop into the ballot box a blue vote for George II and please General George Kondylis, the Dictator who is bringing him back to Athens, or one could cast a red ballot for the Republic and get roughed up. Some 98% of the ballots were royal blue and members of the Athens rabble were easily induced...
...also working overtime, verbal postures of British electioneers, the pained uproar of Continental editors, and the general Homeric hubbub of last week were vastly flattering to the British voter, made him glow with a feeling that his Government, to create such a stir, must indeed deserve many a ballot. Electioneerings...