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From a practical standpoint, however, the fact remains that the most active work done in getting out the vote is carried on by political parties. Their managers always have the im- pression that the voters who do not vote would vote for their candidates if they got to the polls. In 1920, something less than 27 million votes were cast. It is generally expected that over 30 million will be cast this year. The party workers who get out the vote are paid, and the greater the vote, the greater it may be expected that campaign expenses will...
Since the 'downfall of the Kerensky Government in 1917, M. Rakovsky has played an important role in Bolshevik affairs. He has been on several im portant diplomatic missions and since 1919, with one break, he has been chair man of the Ukrainian Council of People's Commissars...
...pilots study meteorological conditions round their particular starting point for months. True the wind is the sole driving, force, but its direction and intensity vary from height to height. The: thing is to keep the craft at that altitude where the wind effects are most: favorable. Suppose a balloon im equilibrium at a certain height. The: sun may come out, heat the hydrogen, contained within the gas, cause it to rise too high. The unskilled pilot: may let out gas in too much of a hurry, drop rapidly, throw out too- much ballast to check his descent, shoot...
Score, Harvard 4, Princeton 2, Goals by Hodder 2, Heals 2, Wall, Wilkinson, Penalties, Austin 2m., Walker Im. (twice). Referees, Sands and Wiggett, Time, three 15 minute periods...
When it came to explaining the motive behind the alleged bull manipulation of the stock market, however, wide differences of opinion were expressed. Some were im pressed with the maneuver chiefly as a drive against the "short interest," which was believed to be large. Others pointed out that 1924 was a Presidential year, that the Party in power might show more than verbal gratitude to anyone who could prevent depression and maintain prosperity at least until after election day. A third school maintained that large interests wished to stir up a good market in order to liquidate securities likely...