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Reasons advanced for Candidate Thomas' failure to receive the 2,000,000 ballots indicated by The Literary Digest straw poll: the "protest vote" went almost entirely to Roosevelt; "parlor" Socialists, reached through the straw poll (automobile & telephone owners), are relatively more numerous than "proletarian" Socialists...
...economy that saved taxpayers money caused a tense situation in Australia's little Navy. At Melbourne's navy pier last week 200 enlisted men walked ashore in protest at the Government's pay cuts. Australian officers worried. Just so did the British naval mutiny at Invergordon start last year (TIME. Sept. 28, 1931), an affair that became more serious than British papers have yet admitted, and according to British standards, Australian discipline is notoriously lax.* Apparently Australian tempers are better. After threatening the Government the men returned to quarters, the fleet sailed for training at Jervis Bay. Minister of Defense...
...protest meeting against the early closing of the University Library will take place at 8 o'clock tomorrow night in Phillips Brooks House. H. N. Doughty, Jr. '26, instructor and tutor in English will be the principal speaker...
Despite the protest of his friends, M. Ernest Perrier, a Swiss delegate to the Disarmament Conference, announced last week "after many months of reflection" his resignation-in order to become a Benedictine monk...
...those who did understand." Republican Trubee Davison, defeated for Lieutenant Governor of New York: "Well, I guess that's over the dam." In Chicago, Socialist Norman Thomas with no electoral votes but a popular vote expected to total perhaps 2,000,000: "Governor Roosevelt may find the mass protest vote more of a boon in getting him elected than in helping to face the years that lie ahead...