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Other testimony: a policeman voted three times in New Orleans; Overton workers marked ballots for voters outside the polling places; a blind man who tried to vote for Broussard had his ballot snatched away by an Overton lieutenant...
...first, second, and third marshals, elected by preferential ballot, will lead the class parades on class day. The class treasurer cooperates with the class secretary in management of the class funds, both officers being elected for life terms...
...elections will be in charge of David W. Lewis '35, assisted by Franklin P. Whitbeck '35. Ballot boxes will be placed in all the Houses, and in Harvard, Sever, and Pierce halls in the Yard. During the noon hour, ballots will be collected in Phillips Brooks House for the convenience of the commuters. Voting hours in the Yard will be from 10 until 12 o'clock...
Aghast at what was happening, henchmen of ex-Premier Azana and other leaders who made Spain a Republic, began to do their bit by bursting into polling places and smashing voting urns amid a welter of trampled ballots. Even the anti-Socialist but definitely Republican party of Premier Don Diego Martinez Barrios grew nervous as it began to seem that the women's vote might give victory to extreme Right parties loyal to "His Most Catholic Majesty." As tension grew the Mayor of Badajos was stabbed to death by poll pug-uglies, but not until he had fired...
...revenues and agelong privileges in Spain of Mother Church. Amazingly, hundreds of wives of Spanish grandees and nobles who have been living fearfully abroad boldly returned, bringing their husbands in many cases, to vote as their consciences commanded. All over Spain the arrival of a priest to pop his ballot into a voting urn was the signal for fervent female demonstrations, shrill appeals to the Holy Virgin to see that the election came out right...