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Sleighs jingled merrily through Finland's pine forests, snowplows roared up and down the streets of Helsinki (Helsingfors). In a nationwide, nose-nipping blizzard last week hardy Finns decided by ballot between continuance of Prohibition and inauguration of State Liquor Control...
...Mann used to play poker with President Harding, no stickler in politics. He did useful jobs for Calvin Coolidge in 1924. An ardent Hooverizer, he turned up in Kansas City in 1928 with enough Negro delegates on his list to ensure the Beaverman's nomination on the first ballot. During the campaign he took $25.000 from the Republican National Committee, set up separate headquarters, herded in Hoovercrats by none too creditable means. He induced Mr. Hoover to speak at Elizabethton, Tenn. and when the Republican nominee broke the Solid South, Col. Mann claimed large credit for his carrying Virginia...
...preferential system of balloting will be used, each man voting for a single one of the four candidates for Class Secretary; six of the 15 nominees for Permanent Class Committee; and seven of the 17 men up for Class Day Committee. The candidates having the largest number of votes will hold the position. Each ballot must have the voter's signature...
...members of the Senior class are at this time voting for their class officers. On the ballot appear also two issues posted for referendum purposes. The first asks whether the members of the Senior class approve of the class constitution, and the second is; do the members of the class approve of the insurance fund method for providing Class funds...
...gadabout daughter José both present in the packed galleries of the Chamber of Deputies, pugnacious Son-of-a-Butcher Laval battled for votes of confidence in the major acts of his Government since last July (when the Chamber adjourned) and won triumph after triumph. The final ballot at 3 a. m. was a smash vote of confidence-325 to 150. While no French cabinet is ever secure against upset by the fickle Deputies, M. Laval's series of victories produced predictions last week that his Government will outlast the present Chamber and conduct the French election due next...