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...November upwards of 2,000,000 votes are expected to be cast compared to less than 850,000 last week. Of some 1,150,000 voters who did not take part in the primaries, LaGuardia may easily win a majority. With a large following in union labor he may poll 200,000 or 300,000 Labor votes alone. But having polled only about 125,000 votes in both the primaries he will need a landslide among non-primary voters to pull him through to victory in November. Since fighting against long odds has always been Fiorello LaGuardia's favorite...
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Filipino males pay a head tax of $1 apiece. The tax receipts have been the means whereby voters are identified. Philippine President Manuel Quezon last week announced that he would veto the woman suffrage bill unless it imposed a poll tax on women, recommended 25? a head as a minimum tariff for Filipino females. Next day, while Filipino suffragettes sputtered with indignation that a tax should go with the right to vote, the National Assembly passed a bill which evaded the question of the poll tax by substituting a different method of identifying voters. If President Quezon signs it, Filipino...
Significance. Obviously the Ontario election today resembles not so much a contest between parties as the sort of plebiscite staged by a Dictator when he wants the blanket approval of the people for his measures. About such a poll, honestly conducted as it will be in the Province of Ontario, there is nothing illegal but there is something new. In the streets of Toronto alarmed C. I. 0. adherents shout "Herr Hepburn!" at the Premier and with catcalls give him derisive Nazi salutes...