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Thirteen Harvard alumni were nominated yesterday to fill the five vacancies on the Board of Overseers that will occur this June. The candidates were selected by the Committee on Nominations of the Harvard Alumni Association, and the election will take place in the spring by postal ballot...
Contained in the ballot are five questions dealing with three fields of military participation, America and another great war, Government control of munitions and war resources, and United States entry into the League of Nations...
...commenting on the ballot Charles L. Whipple '35, spokesman of the National Student League, called the poll "silly since it implies an issue of pacifism impossible in a government pledged to capitalism." Frederick DeW. Bolman, Jr. '35, president of the Debating Council, was hopeful that the poll would actively arouse undergraduate opinion and discussion on pacifism, a subject hitherto regarded almost in the light of fanaticism...
...Capitol from the one in which he officially functions. At the Democratic caucus to pick a leader to succeed Speaker Byrns, eight candidates were in the field. But when Boss Guffey threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead, it was all over on the second ballot. As a sop to the North and Tammany, the Democrats put New York City's Representative John J. O'Connor into the chairmanship of potent Rules Committee. Brother of Basil O'Connor, Franklin Roosevelt's oldtime law partner, Representative O'Connor is, because of his habit...
Saarbrucken, The Saar, January 9--Ill-feeling bordering on open violence among rival factions in the Saar plebiscite resulted tonight when the Anti Nazi united front organization bluntly charged the German front leadership with "Terrorist methods" in handling the arrival of German-American voters in the Sunday ballot...