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When the campaign was at its height and too late to have his name printed on the ballots, Dr. John Richard Brinkley announced his independent candidacy on a platform advocating: 1) drought relief through building an artificial lake in every Kansas county; 2) free health clinics, including assistance for prostate troubles. This latter long had been his specialty, advertised over his powerful radio broadcasting station KFKB. Though expelled for his activity from the American Medical Association, he has prospered. He also offered rejuvenation, grafting goat glands in patients' groins for $750 each. No newspaper supported him, but over...
...officially in the Speaker's limousine after March 4, 1931 neither Republican Longworth nor Democrat Garner nor anyone else knew for sure because the elections which made the 7 2nd Congress had failed to produce an incontestable House ma jority (218 seats) for either party. As the first hasty ballot-count came to an end throughout the land, it appeared that the voters had achieved that rarest of results, a numerically exact tie in the House. The balance was hardly less close in the Senate where the Vice President's vote might be invoked to break a deadlock...
...corner was a section of a sample ballot with an "x" marked for Democrat Lewis...
...represent the public opinion of the country at large. There is no reason to suppose that the vote of three thousand editors will be any more accurate a gauge of the people's feelings than were the votes of the magazine reading public who voted in the Literary Digest ballot. And so if is suggested that a third type of poll be taken, by secret ballot, in little booths, on some "first Tuesday" in November. This, at least, ought to be conclusive...
...around defeated Candidate Vargas. He has charged for months that agents of the "Coffee Oligarchs" assassinated the vice-presidential candidate who was his running mate. He says that he would now be President-elect instead of Dr. Prestes had not the "Coffee Government" of President Washington Luis perpetrated gross ballot-box frauds...