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...Terre Haute, Ind., for the sake of whose vote Communist Candidate Earl Browder endured a night in jail and a pelting with eggs, cast 62 votes for the Communist ticket...
...Communist Party, whose single stronghold is New York City, lost its place on New York State's ballot by failing to roll up the required 50,000 votes for its candidate for Governor. The Red President nominee, Earl Browder, ran 5,000 votes behind his gubernatorial ticket-mate in the State. His national total was some 57,000, down 46,000 from...
...United Kingdom popular newspapers hire downy-lipped young peers to "review" new motor cars and the London Sunday Pictorial surpassed itself when it got the 6th Earl of Cottenham to write about the Phantom III. No fool, the Earl has worked in the aviation department of Vickers Ltd., the leading British armorers, but his description of the time he first drove a Phantom III has become a little classic of Mayfairese. Its title: The Well Behaved Great-Grandson of a Ghost...
...This particular car did not come into my hands as those of a motoring correspondent," wrote the Earl of Cottenham. "Indeed, in the strict sense of the term. I am not a professional motoring correspondent...
Having survived the Earl of Cottenham's cuff, the Phantom III carried him "stealing quietly uphill. . . . I found myself incoherently delighted like a child. . . . Attempting to avoid nothing, in fact, choosing if anything, the worst pieces of surface, I sailed down the middle of Bishop's Avenue hating the whole performance like poison, for I loathe so to treat a car . . . potholes a foot deep are everywhere. . . . Cars with orthodox springing, even of the best kind, shake the teeth in one's head as they pass over Bishop's Avenue. . . . Ghastly thuds sounded beneath...