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Additional names may be joined to the list of nominations, attached by low, by petition. These petitions must be signed by 20 members of the nominee's class, and must be handed to Munroe not later than next Tuesday night. Voting will be held by secret ballot on the following Wednesday and Thursday. Feeling that with the advent of the new Houses, each unit should be represented in the council for next year, the retiring board has taken steps to make this possible...
...year's best editorial: "The Gentleman from Nebraska," an appreciation of Insurgent Senator George William Norris. Extract: "Norris does not represent Nebraska politics. He is the personification of a Nebraska protest against the intellectual aloofness of the East. A vote for Norris is cast into the ballot box with all the venom of a snowball thrown at a silk hat. The spirit that puts him over is vindictive, retaliatory. Another Senator might get Federal projects, administrative favor, post offices and pork barrel favor for Nebraska, but the State is contemptuous of these. For nearly two decades Norris has kept Nebraska...
...spite of the applause which greeted the assertion that the remedy for political evils lies not in the red flag, but in the ballot box, and in spite of the fervor with which the bass drummer accompanied the singing of "The Internationale," neither the man of property nor the apostles of Lenin could glean much satisfaction from the proceedings. For none of the uniformed officers interfered with communist speakers, although outnumbering the twenty-nine avowed communists by almost three to one, they might have mastered them without machine-guns. And none of Moscow's emissaries attempted to heckle Mr. Fish...
...final budget ballot the Bruning Cabinet triumphed by the overwhelming vote of 227 to 64. Almost weepy with relief, Herr Dietrich exclaimed...
...Republican campaign between Mayor Thompson and Judge Lyle had been rough and raucous, bombastic and brutal. Yet in the election itself there were no shootings, no sluggings, no kidnappings, no ballot-stealing, only a few bloody noses. Against the Mayor had been arrayed the Tribune, the News, the Snow-Harding organization, the Deneen forces. That he had won the nomination even by a minority vote was due chiefly to the good work of his payroll machine, the Negro vote, the solid support of the "gang wards." Two also-ran Republican candidates took enough anti-Thompson votes away from Judge Lyle...