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...Pedigree. In a somewhat rambling discourse Dr. Millikan said: "The radio is obviously one of the great new unifying and educational forces. . . . If you do not believe in it because you fear its use by the demagogue and the propagandist, then you despair of the ultimate success of widespread ballot governments as such, and you can logically join one of the two world groups, the Soviets, and in somewhat lesser degree the Fascisti, which [attempt] to push the world back ... to the time when the Pharaoh under the strategy of his Prime Minister, Joseph, became an absolute despot. . . . Any talk...
Life undertook to prove its point by sending ballot cards to 5,110 golf clubs, and printing a ballot blank in the magazine. Strictly, Life's poll will not be a true pro-&-con measure of opinion because the form of ballot blank is worded to attract only the objectors. But as a petition of protest, Life is confident that an overwhelming aversion to the new ball will be registered by "the 90% who never break...
...favorite play, favorite film, favorite poem, etc. etc. But it did not report the students' favorite newspapers which were 1) Times, 2) Herald Tribune, 3) Chicago Tribune. Even the Herald Tribune's own Colyumist FPAdams remarked next day that the only Manhattan paper to report that particular ballot was the Times...
...Sullivan '33 is listed in the Sophomore ballot for the Student Council, and not C. R. Sullivan '33, as announced in yesterday's CRIMSON. Vernon Munroe '31, in charge of the voting, has announced that ballots must be in the mail next Monday night, a day later than originally planned...
...When it was over, 45 minutes more were taken to count it, check and double-check. The count: Paul Doumer 442 Aristide Briand 401 Jean Hennessy 15 Marcel Cachin 10 Gaston Doumergue 7 Paul Painlevé 2 Scattered 20 Blank 4 Total 901 Thus on the first ballot nobody got a majority of over half the votes, the necessary minimum to elect. But M. Doumer had failed to win by only seven votes. M. Briand by 48. The result, to a practiced parliamentary eye, was decisive-for a large block of centre National Assemblymen were known to have pledged themselves...