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...selecting the names of the men to appear on the CRIMSON straw vote ballot, selection has been made of men who have come into the forefront of contemporary politics this year, and who seem to be the men most likely to be considered at the national conventions...
...each ballot, in addition to indicating choice for the presidency, every voter will also be asked to name the party sympathies which he held in 1928. as well as to give the name of his home state. Voters will also be asked to sign the ballots...
...North Dakota primary usually lacks political meaning. The voters are free to ballot in either party and their presidential preferences in no wise bind convention delegates elected separately but simultaneously. Governor Murray, campaigning excitedly as an apostle of discontent, had purposely picked North Dakota for the first test of his political strength outside Oklahoma. He confidently expected to turn agrarian radicalism to his own benefit. Yet Governor Roosevelt not only swept the preference voting but won nine of the State's ten Democratic convention delegates. The only delegate Governor Murray got to add to his 22 from Oklahoma...
...Republican convention delegates elected in North Dakota's primary last week (see p. 16j, were Hooverites. The eleventh was independent. President Hoover was not a candidate in the Republican preference voting where Dr. Joseph Irwin France beat "General" Jacob S. Coxey three-to-two in a notably light ballot. Since he did not win a single convention delegate. Dr. France's victory was meaningless...
...declined about 30% in the last two years. Last week the organization took action. To the kind of people that Cinema Tsar Will Hays believes have lately begun to be interested in the cinema-bankers, editors, ministers, scientists, socialites, teachers, writers-were mailed 150,000 small blue leaflets, containing ballots. On each ballot were listed 34 species of cinema under six generic heads. Voters were asked to check their favorite kind of cinema, add remarks. Twelve million more such ballots will be distributed, by mail and in theatres, in the next six months. Ten thousand ballots returned last week showed...