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...fashioned opinions of Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin no dictatorship could count on getting enough votes if the ballot were secret. This fallacy Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have exploded with secret ballot after secret ballot in 'which they always poll better than 90%. Last week Joseph Stalin decided that it will now be all right for the Soviet Union to have secret ballots...
...Union there are seven such Federal republics and seven such puppet Presidents. Said President Mussabekov, addressing the All-Union Congress of Soviets: "I believe our beloved country is now virtually rid of Capitalist elements. Consequently we can advance to a new stage in the development of Socialism: the secret ballot, direct elections and equalization of the voting rights of peasants and proletarians...
...proposal for Soviet progress mildly paradoxical. Another great stride was taken some years ago when piece work, abolished in Russia after the Revolution, was restored by Stalin. Last week Soviet editors soon got wind of popular rumors that "free speech" is going to be granted along with the secret ballot. Promptly scotching these rumors, State newsorgans stated that Russians will not be granted free speech-the one thing no dictator dares to grant...
...marched into the Capitol at Hartford last week to be received by the General Assembly and sworn in for his third term as Governor. An hour later he marched out again, still unsworn. Deadlocked between Republicans and Democrats with three Socialists holding the balance, the Senate continued to take ballot after futile ballot to elect a clerk. Governor Cross went ahead with his Inaugural Ball that night, was sworn in late next day after the Socialists had swung to the Republicans on the 110th ballot...
...rosa expenditures by France and Germany, if each be found to have spent as much as the other charged, would pay a good part of Europe's War Debt. Neutral guessers figured the monster slush-funds around $50,000,000. Thus each ballot cost perhaps...