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Vastly vexed was the Associated Press, chief rival of the U. P. Its Washington chief protested to the Senate, claiming the right to publish executive session proceedings, implying that the United Press report of the Lenroot poll was not accurate. The only inaccuracy formally complained of had to do with two absent Senators. Nevertheless the A. P., in self defense, kept belittling its rival's scoop. This not-very-sporting A. P. letter brought mumbles of derision from Senators...
...last week's elections the voting was unusually light and the newly elected members are, in most cases, candidates who fell short of success in the undergraduate poll. The full complement of the Council shows that 12 out of the 15 seats are held by members or managers of sports teams...
...Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite, had been ill with influenza and complications since before March 4. He lay in a hospital bed in Baltimore. The administration of the oath by Clerk Crockett made him eligible to cast his vote for the debenture plan. That made 47 to 47 in the informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana's Broussard, the undecided Senator, a Democrat. "Nose-Holding." Southern Democrats could give the condition of the cotton planters as their reason for voting an unDemocratic subsidy, which is what the debenture plan amounts to. But Northern, city Democrats could give as their only...
Ballots for this poll are now in the mails, but no space appears for the signature. Does this mean that a signature is not required and that the millenium of political honesty has finally been found on the banks of the Charles...
...General Booth continues his battle he will attack the validity of the Salvation Army's 1904 deed poll which so far has legalized 'his ousting. This document states that seven commissioners may call a general meeting and oust a general in cases of continued illness, bankruptcy, lunacy. Of course, the High Council ousted General Booth because he was unwell...