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Meanwhile zealous Storm Troopers were flaunting such amazing slogans as "Christ was the first anti-Semite!" and "Down with baptized Jews who have become Protestant pastors!" Such stuff of course meant nothing except that the Nazis were resolved to win the ballot battle. Up for election were candidates to fill some 400,000 posts as German church elders and board members. All over the Fatherland Nazi intimidation tactics worked. In Munich, Nuremberg and scores of lesser cities the von Bodelschwingh opposition crumpled up completely, agreed to support "fusion lists" of candidates, each packed with a thumping majority of Nazi "German...
...Farley, a Roman Catholic, flew back to Washington without hearing how he had almost failed to get his D.C.L. The trustees of famed, conservative Protestant Episcopal Sewanee had met in special session, with Episcopal Bishop Thomas Frank Gailor presiding. For every honorary degree unanimous consent was necessary. When ballots on "General" Farley's name were scrutinized, one looked like a squiggly, illegible "No." It was certainly not a "Yes." Then up spoke Trustee Arthur Crownover, according to campus gossip, to point out that the by-laws said an illegible ballot must be thrown out. "Then throw it out." said...
...Angeles, fifth city of the U. S., got a new Mayor last week. By a 31,500-ballot majority John Clinton Porter was ousted for Frank Lawrence Shaw. In office since 1929, Mayor Porter won a recall election last year because his opposition consisted of a scattered field of nonentities. But many a Los Angeles citizen was itching to get rid of him because : 1) as a Dry, he had '"disgraced" his city by refusing to drink a wine toast to the U. S. President while junketing in France with other U. S. mayors two years ago (TIME, June...
...inoperative until the electorate has a chance to vote on it. Last week Ohio Drys managed to delay a ratification vote ordered by the Legislature for November by rallying 242,000 petitioners, 88,000 more than necessary. Instead of voting for or against Repeal in November, Ohio voters will ballot on whether or not to hold such a referendum. The Dry maneuver lessened the possibility of 36 States ratifying the 21st Amendment before the end of the vear...
Harvard conservatism showed itself yesterday when the incomplete returns from the Phillips Brooks House Peace Poll showed that question two on the ballot received more votes than either of the other two alternatives. With Adams and Lowell missing at a late hour last night, 477 votes were tabulated from the remaining polling places. Extreme pacifists and extreme militarists registered 150 and 119 votes respectively on questions one and three...