Word: recounting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after, a recount of the votes for Fredric March showed that his performance in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde had beaten Wallace Beery's in The Champ by only one vote. Academy rule says the margin must be two or more. The dilemma was solved by ordering another gold statuet for Wallace Beery...
...towheaded, horse-fancying son of the then chairman of Marshall Field & Co.. thought he had won the Republican nomination for Congress in the Suburban loth ("North Shore") district. In May the official count gave the nomination to State Representative Ralph Church by 73 votes. A recount failed to change the outcome. Mr. Simpson took his case to court, was last week declared winner by 45 votes. Candidate Church announced he would run independently in November on the issue of whether Nominee Simpson should "be sent to Congress to stifle the investigation of the two-billion-dollar Insull wreckage," Candidate...
...ballot count slowly progressed Governor Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson seesawed back & forth with sometimes only a few hundred votes separating them. When Governor Sterling's lead moved above 3,000. Jim Ferguson, whose impeachment and removal as Governor put his wife into politics and office, began to demand a recount...
...James Simpson Jr., horsey, socialite son of the board chairman of Marshall Field & Co. Last week final figures proved that Mr. Church had, after all, nosed out Junior Simpson by 73 votes out of some 83,000 cast. Hopelessly beaten in the primary was Carl Chindblom, Republican incumbent. A recount was expected...
...There have been no other people," said Professor Nordal, "who have given so much thought to poetry under such adverse conditions. Their literature is directly the result of their history; their vigor for conquest turned to a tendency to recount their heroic deeds of the past when they found themselves isolated on a barren island and unable to push on further...