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Spain's Minister of Prisons, British-blooded Senorita Victoria Kent, leading Spanish feminist, opposed the law: "Spanish women are not prepared for the ballot...
...Cathedral of St. John the Divine who a week before had been belaboring his oldtime superior. Bishop William Thomas Manning of New-York (TIME. Sept: 14) ; and Middle Churchman Rev. Dr. Frederick Grandy Budlong, rector of Christ Church, Greenwich, just returned from junketing in Paris. Soon as balloting began, the race was between Dr. Robbins and Dr. Budlong. On the fourth ballot Dr. Budlong was elected, subject to ratification by this week's General Convention in Denver. He thanked his electors, said he would seek release from his Greenwich parish before accepting definitely...
Kingdom of Jugoslavia. Voting is to be by secret ballot with universal suffrage for all Jugoslavians over...
...resign from one or the other after election). He was defeated in both. Quebec's election day had its Chicago aspects. In Montreal 232 people were arrested. A man was killed in an argument in Sorel. Hooligans wrecked an anti-Houde newspaper office. Voting booths were raided, ballot boxes stolen. Municipal constables and provincial police arrested each other. Worried election officers imported phlegmatic Indians from up-country to telegraph the results...
...Governor Ignacio de la Mora of Jalisco last week. In Mexico City a strong group in the.Chamber of Deputies was demanding his removal, charging that he had reestablished peonage in Jalisco, that he had restored the priests to their original political eminence, that he was selling jobs, stuffing ballot boxes...