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Forty minutes were devoted to the loudest and most frenzied cheering the Dictator has ever received in the Chamber. When the Corporative State law was proposed, the whole Chamber leaped up to adopt it by acclaim. Il Duce stilled the pandemonium, insisted on a vote, cast the first ballot himself. The count, presumably unanimous, was not mentioned in dispatches...
...following are the group from which the five vacancies will be filled by a postal ballot to all graduates this spring: Albert F. Bigelow '03, of Brookline, lawyer, and Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the Massachusetts State Legislature; James M. Morton, Jr. '91, of Fall River, Judge of the United States Circuit Court, and former president of the Harvard Alumni Association; Robert P. Patterson, LL.B. '15, of New York City, Judge of the United States District Court, Southern New York District; Charles Warren '89 of Washington, D. C., lawyer and former Assistant Attorney General of the United...
...Weir was willing to consent to having "non-employes' " names on the ballots, so that A. F. of L.'s Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers Union delegates might be eligible, but he drew the line at voting "ex-employes." He also refused to abandon the secret ballot in favor of the petition system. Deeming that such procedure rules would give outside A. F. of L. men undue advantage, he brusquely notified the Board: "We must consider any arrangement with you terminated...
...twelve parishes in the election district, balloting was held only in nine last week. Injunctions prevented voting in the rest. In Livingston parish, masked men seized ballots at Centerville, burned them. In nine precincts of West Feliciana and Washington parishes, citizens marched to the polls, seized ballot boxes borrowed from New Orleans, dumped their contents into the street, set them afire. At St. Francisville seven boxes were emptied and spiked on the courthouse fence...
Tangipahoa parishioners showed more invention. Only "ballot box'' they provided was a garbage can on Hammond's main street, labeled "Vote here if you want to." On a gallows in the Hammond town square they hanged a two-faced effigy. One face was that of the local Longster, Judge Amos Lee Ponder Jr. The other had a black eye and was labeled: LONG ISLAND HUEY LONG, Every Dog Has His Day. When the sun set on the revolting parishes, Mrs. Kemp had received 5,000 votes. Normal vote...