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When they came to disputed ballots ? there were some 16 different kinds of them ? the committee tried to interpret from the scrawls and scratchings the "intent" of the voter. Ultimately the committee decided, 10-1, that a slim majority of the voters had intended to vote for Steck, and it recommended to the Senate that Brookhart be unseated...
Garfield ("Gar") Wood of Detroit builds speedboats - faster speedboats every year bearing the name "Baby Gar" and a numeral. One day last week the Baby Gar VII slowed down to 40 miles an hour, with intent to turn around a buoy in the Havana open speedboat contest. Just ahead, the speedboat Miss Palm Beach was making the same turn. Splash went a wave slowing up Miss Palm Beach by a split second. Crash went Baby Gar VII into Miss Palm Beach, throwing overboard her own pilot, George Wood, brother of Gar. With her motors roaring, Baby Gar VII churned round...
Ignored. At the President's press conference, last week, questions dealing with "the Houghton incident" were pointedly ignored by "the White House spokesman" (i. e., Calvin Coolidge). The "spokesman" did disclose, however, that the administration has not been dissuaded from its announced intent of sending a U. S. representative to the preliminary League disarmament conference...
...that premised nineteen centuries ago. For the oracular omniscience from Brooklyn has placed a syndicated wreath on the grave of the supreme liar of history. The dramatic example which clinches the justification of lying further serves to revivify the long-dead Ananias. Were a man chasing a woman with intent to kill and the woman slipped down a side street unobserved. Dr. Caedmon asserts that he would feel no scruples in misdirecting her pursuer...
...only issue of any consequence so far created is the World Court. The Progressive Republicans seem intent to press this as far as they can against regular Republicans in states where there is irreconcilable sentiment, such states as Wisconsin and Illinois...