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This travesty on popular suffrage, said anti-Long witnesses, was made possible by a practice which Senator Long freely admitted on the witness stand. Every primary candidate in Louisiana is permitted a staff of poll workers. In one-third of Louisiana's parishes, the Kingfish testified, his machine had paid the entrance fees of dummy candidates who subsequently withdrew in favor of regular Long candidates but left their poll workers in the field...
Aghast at what was happening, henchmen of ex-Premier Azana and other leaders who made Spain a Republic, began to do their bit by bursting into polling places and smashing voting urns amid a welter of trampled ballots. Even the anti-Socialist but definitely Republican party of Premier Don Diego Martinez Barrios grew nervous as it began to seem that the women's vote might give victory to extreme Right parties loyal to "His Most Catholic Majesty." As tension grew the Mayor of Badajos was stabbed to death by poll pug-uglies, but not until he had fired...
...ideal plane design for manufacturers to follow? Director Vidal hastened to squelch all such notions. His Department would simply look for customers for a $700 airplane, drop its findings into the industry's lap, let the industry do the rest. He added: "If favorable response [to the poll] does not follow, we will at least learn what is retarding the development of private flying...
With New York City's most turbulent Mayoral election in 20 years only eight days away, last week the semi-final results of the Literary Digest's straw poll stood: Fusion Candidate Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, 217,599; Recovery Candidate Joseph Vincent McKee, 169,715; Tammany's Candidate, Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, 51,562. Undoubtedly Candidate LaGuardia had drawn ahead for a while in the preceding fortnight but other, more up-to-date straw-voting persuaded Wall Street betters to reinstate McKee last week-end as the favorite at even money, with odds against LaGuardia...
...yesterday's poll to choose a Sophomore member of the Lowell House Committee, Charles Snead Houston '35, of Great Neck, Long Island, was elected. Houston tied with James W. Tower '35, in last week's voting, and another poll was necessary...