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...incumbent, is widely rated a party liability. Last week the Wet Eastern wing of the G. 0. P. renewed its cries for his removal. William Scott ("Boss") Vare, Pennsylvania's Senator-reject whose plumping for Herbert Hoover at Kansas City in 1928 gave him the nomination on the first ballot, declared: "The people are tired of Prohibition . . . the re-election of President Hoover is extremely doubtful. . . . Unless the policies of the party are changed, I doubt that 1932 will be a Republican year...
...York as Democracy's lead candidate for the Presidency. Still across his availability fell the uncertain shadow of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Last month Governor Roosevelt and Mr. Smith got into a squabble over what otherwise would have been viewed as a political triviality on the New York State ballot. Submitted to the people was a proposal to amend the Constitution so that the State might spend some $20,000 over a period of years buying up abandoned farms and denuded lands ad joining State parks, and proceed to reforest them. Governor Roosevelt, Tam many Hall and all New York Republicans...
Meanwhile Peru has had a triple revolution. Picturesque, hard-swearing Lieut. Col. Luis Sanchez Cerro, who led the first armed revolt and was ousted by the second, became a presidential candidate after the third revolt. Peruvian voters chose by ballot between the Colonel and three other candidates, all civilians. While the vote was being counted gunmen in a speeding car riddled the residence of Candidate Sanchez Cerro with random bullets, killed nobody. Startled, but by no means unnerved, Colonel Sanchez Cerro received with a tight grin of satisfaction last week the news that he had been elected President of Peru...
Returns from the poll held yesterday at the Law School by the Roosevelt-for-President Club reveal 525 votes in favor of a change in the existing prohibition law against 36 in favor of retaining the present system. Of the five questions printed on the ballot, four dealt with prohibition and the fifth with the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 for president. Only 61 students failed to east ballots...
...question of the nomination of Roosevelt, 500 men registered votes, 314 in favor of the Governor and 186 against his nomination. Roosevelt was the only candidate mentioned on the ballot but. Al Smith and Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray of Oklahoma received three or four votes apiece...