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While a noisy crowd packed the galleries the cloture motion missed by one ballot (58-to-30) the necessary two-thirds majority. The vote did not mean that Huey Long had 30 die-hard supporters on the floor but only that many a Senator is opposed in principle to any form...
...diligently had Tammany workers striven to bolster up the O'Brien ballot during the election, with an eye to strengthening his 193,3 chances, that last week 44 New York City polls officials were indicted for filing false returns...
...score more clubs and societies, joined the Improved Order of Red Men and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon in 1930, the American Philatelic Society and the Academic Diplomatique Internationale in 1931, etc. etc., the Maccabees last week. ¶ How, after winning the nomination last July on the fourth ballot, he dramatically flew to Chicago to address the convention. ¶ How he campaigned 12,000 mi. during September and October. ¶ How he was elected Nov. 8 by 22,813,786 votes to Hoover...
...addition, incidentally, the 1933 elections exhibited an unusual irregularity. Of its 353 voters who balloted for secretary, each was entitled to indicate five choices for Album Committee, which should give a total of 1765 votes. The actual total was 1516; the 249 votes were thrown away partly by Seniors who could not honestly say they knew five men from the list of candidates for the Album Committee, but mostly by an organized and interested group who, it insure the election of a number of candidates, specified on a typewritten "ticket" which was circulated, voted for them and for them only...
...departure in the class elections has appeared with the nomination of Filstrup who is a Senior in the Engineering School. Never before has an engineering School. Never before has an engineering student's name been sent in for the ballot. Filstrup was nominated as the result of an open straw vote taken among the seniors at the school last week, who desired to be represented in the elections. Results of the elections will be printed in Friday's CRIMSON...