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...Jersey Republicans next morning went to the polls to record their preference for Presidential Candidates Borah and Landon. Governor Hoffman was candidate for no more exalted office than one of New Jersey's four delegates-at-large to the Republican Convention. In addition to him, the official slate of Landon delegates-at-large included Mrs. Edna B. Conklin; President Edward D. Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co., chairman of Princeton's board of trustees; and Walter Evans Edge, onetime (1919-29) Senator, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Into the fight at the last minute had jumped onetime...
...voters of Illinois smacked the face of Publisher William Franklin Knox by giving Senator William Edgar Borah a majority in the Presidential preference vote everywhere except in Cook County. Fortnight ago the voters of California rapped the knuckles of Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman Landon by electing a slate of uninstructed delegates to the Republican National Convention. Last week the voters of Ohio made it all even between the three active Republican candidates by boxing the ears of Senator Borah...
...distinction of Coach Samborski's nine no Harvard team had ever before been undefeated while carrying such a list of games and there has been no baseball team with a clean slate since 1927, when the Freshmen were unbeaten in nine games...
...pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam, who had been ignored in the Hoover slate. Governor Landon, sticking steadfastly to his pose that the nomination must seek him, refused to approve or repudiate the Hearst-Merriam ticket (TIME, April...
...California Democratic voters had a choice of two protests against President Roosevelt's failure to embrace "Production-for-Use" and the Townsend Plan. When the results were counted, 101,403 had chosen Upton Sinclair's EPIC slate; 58,897 had plumped for Representative John S. McGroarty's Townsendite group. That left the President a tremendous majority...