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...Roosevelt bandwagon last week ran into John Nance Garner, onetime cowboy, in California. Again the bandwagon was "chocked." The New York Governor's friends were still sure their candidate would be nominated in Chicago next month. But after his California drubbing, they stopped claiming victory on the first ballot...
...convention roll is called Governor Roosevelt will get the first votes announced from the floor because last week, almost unnoticed during the California excitement, he carried Alabama by default. The State which in 1924 kept stubbornly casting "24 votes for Underwood," until the Davis compromise on the 103d ballot, will this year lead off with "24 votes for Roosevelt...
Profound emotions aroused by the assassination of the President of the Republic (see p. 21), sent French voters to the polls last week in a mood of extraordinary and unwonted calm. There were no riots, no street fights, no arrests of individual malcontents such as disturbed the initial balloting fortnight ago for the Chamber of Deputies. But Frenchmen continued to think for themselves and to vote according to their thoughts. They were not stampeded toward the political Right by scare stories that beloved old President Doumer had been done to death by a "regular Bolshevik." The second ballot took...
...expected, the National Assembly on the first ballot elected as the 14th President of France the President of the Senate, peasant-born Albert Lebrun, 60, who like President Hoover has been a mining engineer. Out of 826 ballots cast President Lebrun received 633, the Socialists gestured by throwing away 114 ballots on the obscure secretary of their party Paul Faure, scattered friends of former Premier Paul Painlevé (who announced that he did not choose to run at the last moment) gave him twelve votes, the Communists cast eight for Communist Leader Marcel Cachin (who lost his Chamber seat...
...campaign drew to a close last week both Jew Blum and Gentile Tardieu became speechless from talking too much, had to let their final speeches be read by leather-lunged henchmen. Premier Tardieu's laryngitis grew so bad that he dared not even venture out to ballot. Thus of the French "Big Three" there remained shouting to the end only that redoubtable Gentile, barrel-chested Edouard Herriot, Mayor of Lyons and leader of the second-largest party in the Chamber of Deputies (107 seats out of 610), the misnamed Radical Socialists...