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...High Sheriff did his rascally best to get the Governor's candidate elected. When a viva voce vote showed most of the electors for Lewis Morris, whom Governor Cosby had deposed as Chief Justice of New York's Supreme Court, the Sheriff demanded a poll. Against all precedent, he barred from voting 38 Quakers for refusing to "swear on the Book" to their eligibility. Nonetheless Lewis Morris won the day and the electors triumphantly "waited on their new representative to his lodging with trumpets sounding and violins...
Mayor Richard M. Russell '14 scored a victory in the Cambridge primaries yesterday when he defeated his nearest opponent, John D. Lynch by 3, 944 votes. Mayor Russell's total poll was 12,053 votes...
...that M. Jean-Marie Chalifour, citizen of France and instructor in Harvard's French Department, awoke one sultry A.M. to find in his mail box a communication from the city of Cambridge. It was apparently the intent of some minion to inform M. Chalifour that he owed a $2.00 poll...
...Washington Monument tied to its tail." Last week humming bird and Washington Monument were well on their way to Mars when Senator Sheppard's own mammoth Texas became the 23rd consecutive State to plump for Repeal. In a light vote, due to public apathy and a $1.75 poll tax, the 21st Amendment was ratified by a 114,000 majority. Even Senator Sheppard's own Texarkana turned Wet against him. Simultaneously the Texas constitution was amended to permit sale of 3.2% beer...
...Paris hotel in the hope that friends who remembered when she was a famed stage comedienne might patronize it enough to keep her comfortable. Now, at 63, she is indisputably the most valuable performer in Hollywood. Last year 12,000 exhibitors in Motion Picture Herald's nation-wide poll agreed that her name was worth more at the box office than that of Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, Jean Harlow or Mickey Mouse. Her last four pictures have earned an average of $800,000 each-far more than any other star's. She gets a salary...