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Pass interceptions paved the way for the Bellboy touchdown and margin of victory by setting the Gold Coasters back deep in their own territory. When two penalties thwarted an attempt to score from the five, Lowell intercepted again on the 40, from where Bill Ayres drove to the 25. Loring Briggs flipped a short pass to Pat Bowditch in the fl at and Bowditch went over standing up. Dan Silver, whose kickoffs this season have suggested big-time football, booted the extra point...
...them, anyway-will go to the polls (for the fourth time in seven months) to elect 619 deputies to the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. The prospect: a continuation of the present coalition government, in which the MRP (Catholic progressives) now leads the Communists by a slight margin, with the Socialists third. The plain people were not much agitated; the winter winds were beginning to blow in earnest around their scantily heated houses. They were much more interested in coal than in coalition...
...seat on the block.) But the cotton market was still full of little Tom Jordans. While ceilings were slapped on other major commodities and trading in the stockmarket was put on a cash basis, cotton had been free as a breeze. It could be bought on approximately a 10% margin; it was the speculator's delight...
Although it is too early to be sure, in large measure the surprising margin of Republican victory can be ascribed to the almost total disappearance of the labor vote in America, a vote which in the Roosevelt era proved decisive time and time again. Men like Guffey and Voorhis, with one hundred per cent labor records, went down to defeat, while the CIO PAC in its initial test without Roosevelt's support railed to deliver on almost every candidate who claimed its support...
...middle west. Again, signs seem to indicate that the mid-western Republicans might just do it. They stand to gain a Senatorial seat in the election of Honest John Bricker in Ohio, another in the defeat of former Democratic Governor Townsend in Indians, and can add to the margin by decisions in close West Virginia, Wisconsin and Missouri races. Coupled with at least fair G.O.P. chances in California, Montana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Wyoming, this edge in the corn country might be the force which would put Massachusetts' Joe Martin the Speaker's Chair, and seat the first oppositionist President...